Well, I didn't get to it over the weekend, but I got to play a bit tonight. I just made it explicitly depend on ironclad. So, once it gets updated in quicklisp, there should be no more :weakly-depends-on in my ASD file.
When I used the 'weakly-depends' before, it was before quicklisp when I was leery of having too many external dependencies. ttyl, Patrick On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Patrick Stein wrote: > Yes. I can stop using it. I will try to tackle that this weekend. > > -- Patrick <[email protected]> > > On Feb 21, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Faré <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear Pat, >> >> I'd like to kill the evil that is :weakly-depends-on, and your >> cl-growl seems to be the only user of it in quicklisp. >> >> :weakly-depends-on is evil because it's non-deterministic, and what >> code you get depends on which order things were compiled or >> configured, and you can't fix things after the fact. Could you stop >> using it? >> >> Alternatives include having a separate system foo+bar that explicitly >> loads foo and bar before doing the connection, and/or using >> asdf-system-connections to automatically load foo+bar when both foo >> and bar have been loaded. I don't personally like this automatic >> loading, but at least it doesn't break determinism. >> >> As for allowing a system to run with or without another, that's what >> hooks are call, i.e. runtime configuration variables. >> >> —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• >> http://fare.tunes.org >> So that there be reality, there must be an observer. >> "I am, therefore someone thinks." — Faré _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
