Re: [asdf-devel] Would like to disable bundle-op on known not-working implementation X platform combinations

2014-01-03 Thread Faré
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > Per the principle of failing obviously, I propose to raise an error upon > attempts to use bundle-op with ECL or ABCL on Mac OSX. The bundle-op > tests have been failing for me on those platforms for as long as I can > remember. > > For

Re: [asdf-devel] Releasing asdf 3.1.1 ?

2014-01-03 Thread Faré
> I get this, and the recoding is a HUGE improvement. Furthermore, you > have convinced me that we can't unwind this change in any way that won't > create yet more damage. > > However: > a. This change is not backward-compatible > Actually, I looked again, and paren-compile-op is actually unaffec

[asdf-devel] Would like to disable bundle-op on known not-working implementation X platform combinations

2014-01-03 Thread Robert P. Goldman
Per the principle of failing obviously, I propose to raise an error upon attempts to use bundle-op with ECL or ABCL on Mac OSX. The bundle-op tests have been failing for me on those platforms for as long as I can remember. For ECL, at least, I believe this to be an implementation bug, having to d

Re: [asdf-devel] Releasing asdf 3.1.1 ?

2014-01-03 Thread Robert P. Goldman
Faré wrote: > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Robert P. Goldman > wrote: >> While there are bug fixes waiting to reach our users, I'm quite >> concerned by the loss of backwards compatibility in systems that defined >> their own OPERATION subclasses. >> > This backward incompatibility already ha

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF walkthrough

2014-01-03 Thread Robert P. Goldman
I'm definitely in. Sent from my iPad > On Jan 3, 2014, at 1:10, Faré wrote: > > Dear Lisp hackers, > > I'm considering recording a walk through the ASDF sources. > > I'd like to have an interactive session over Google Hangout > with one or a few people, explaining the current code in asdf/def

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF walkthrough

2014-01-03 Thread Mark Evenson
Excellent idea! Please let me know when you will be doing this. Currently, I would possibly profit from an explanation of the kinds of "transversal" ASDF does over the "system of systems" it needs to do, but that is not too sharply defined  as a question yet. Tersely pecked on my Nexus 5 On Ja