Dear list,
a quick and superficial analysis suggests that the :cmu feature has been
defined for longer (probably forever) and :cmucl is relatively new(*), yet ASDF
appears to use both and mix them rather arbitrarily. Assuming that the check
for :cmucl is not meant to rule out old versions of cmucl, I think it would
make sense to stick to one.
While `make test` will currently fail right away with cmucl 20b because of the
missing :cmucl feature, transforming all the occurrences of the :cmucl feature
into :cmu still leaves two tests failing. And with
20c and 20d (which are not old at all and do define :cmucl), 5 tests will still
be failing (and have been
for quite some time). Only the very recent releases 20e, 20f, and 21a pass all
tests.
Is this known? Is it impossible to support old versions of cmucl? I did find
that cmucl-20a at least does not expose (unix:unix-getenv) which ASDF puts to
use but I cannot judge if there are ways to work around that.
So to summary what I’d like to ask:
- Is it known that tests fail on cmucl <20e?
- What versions of cmucl is ASDF meant to support?
- Should I turn checks for the :cmucl feature into ones for :cmu?
Elias
(*) in a shell,
for v in 19a 20{a,b,c,d,e,f} 21a; do echo -n cmucl-$v:; cmucl-$v -eval
'(write-line #+cmucl "yes" #-cmucl "no")' -eval '(quit)'; done
prints:
cmucl-19a:no
cmucl-20a:no
cmucl-20b:no
cmucl-20c:yes
cmucl-20d:yes
cmucl-20e:yes
cmucl-20f:yes
cmucl-21a:yes
