On Dec 27, 2008, at 4:04 PM, David Rush wrote: > 2008/12/27 William D Clinger <w...@ccs.neu.edu>: >> Marco Moggi wrote: >>> I cannot use COMPILE-STALE-LIBRARIES because >>> when there are the following files in the same >>> directory: >>> >>> compat.ikarus.sls >>> compat.larceny.sls >>> compat.ypsilon.sls >>> >>> Larceny attempts to compile all of them, not only >>> the "larceny.sls" one. >> >> That has been logged as a requested enhancement >> (ticket #602). > > I should probably add this to the ticket, but it's unclear to me how > to define this feature in a way that doesn't (pardon my failing > imagination) suck. Compatibility in general is a N^2 problem; you need > to define the "from" system and the "to" system in order to completely > specify which compatibility module you want in the most general case.
I thought this too. But then I read the text of ticket #602; I thought Will's proposal there made sense. Are you saying that the Will proposal on #602 also falls victim to the Compatibility-N^2 problem? (I don't see how.) -Felix _______________________________________________ Larceny-users mailing list Larceny-users@lists.ccs.neu.edu https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/larceny-users
