>>: Faré >: Elias >> 2- Similarly, when deciding what to do with internals (or even >> externals), grep'ing the contents of quicklisp is good policy. Though >> regarding external symbol, even if no one in quicklisp uses it, it's >> good citizenship to go through a complete 2-year obsolescence cycle. > > The sources for every project on quicklisp? Is there a central repository > that holds all of those, or a simple way to obtain them? > My system ql-test https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/frideau/ql-test provides a few utility functions that might prove useful.
>> 3- I find %if-on-lispworks7+ particularly ugly. I'd create a feature >> and add it in common-lisp.lisp. But I admit this is a weak preference. > > Yes, I found it terribly ugly, too. I wasn’t aware that adding to *features* > was something you’re allowed to do. I’ve now done that in > > https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/commit/13df4e9364527dd5b9197012b1eb95c6e9b9bcd1 > > and the code has ended up looking quite a bit nicer again, in particular > because with #+ instead of macros I don’t need to use find-symbol* and > (declare (ignore)) will work. > Yes, it is allowed, but with a lot of parcimony. I frown upon random systems adding a feature to show they're present: that's bad practice from before the time when defsystem was universal. But in some cases (uiop/os, trivial-features, etc.), it's a way to provide a uniform interface to the underlying implementation, and is therefore justified. > I’ve also pushed a fix for the LispWorks 6 warning in > > > https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/commit/590952a8afc9ca57e0a9cc917105b6f1d4039351 > > (thanks a lot to Robert for helping me debug that!). > Thanks to the two of you! > If we can agree on Robert’s unsupported-functionality error class, I’ll work > that into the merge request, too. > Yes, it's a good idea. Sigh. I like to say that UIOP is a library that does literally nothing -- but the same nothing uniformly on 15 different implementations. And that's hard. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. — Henry Ford
