Re: "How-to" request

2021-03-19 Thread Robert Goldman
We don't actually. Faré deprecated that. The reasons are complicated, but basically, it wasn't possible to propagate arguments through a plan. What do you need an argument for? Maybe there's a work-around. On 19 Mar 2021, at 16:24, Marco Antoniotti wrote: BTW. If you do not advise to

Re: "How-to" request

2021-03-19 Thread Marco Antoniotti
BTW. If you do not advise to specialize OPERATE, how do you pass arguments to PERFORM? MA On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 7:45 PM Robert Goldman wrote: > P.S. I don't recommend writing your own OPERATE methods -- OPERATE is > quite complicated and messing with it could lead you into very deep water.

Re: System cleanup

2021-03-19 Thread Andreas Davour
On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, Faré wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 3:10 AM Andreas Davour wrote: What more, even Xach […] updated the fallback ASDF in Quicklisp from 2.26 to 3.2.1! Didn't he revert that change after something broke? Not according to the git repository of quicklisp-client. Also, we

Re: "How-to" request

2021-03-19 Thread Marco Antoniotti
Thanks Robert. AFAIAC the operation-done-p did the trick. I had skipped it as the doc says that this operation "may" be provided. I am not sure how to improve the docs for this task (creating new operations). I guess a description of what OPERATE and PERFORM actually invoke and when would

Re: "How-to" request

2021-03-19 Thread Robert Goldman
P.S. I don't recommend writing your own `OPERATE` methods -- `OPERATE` is quite complicated and messing with it could lead you into very deep water. I don't believe you should ever need to. On 19 Mar 2021, at 13:42, Robert Goldman wrote: Hi. I'm happy to help you work through this, but so

Re: "How-to" request

2021-03-19 Thread Robert Goldman
Hi. I'm happy to help you work through this, but so that it doesn't recur as a problem, I'd appreciate it if you would help me fix the manual's discussion of this. First, have you read this page https://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf.html#Creating-new-operations ? Please have a look at

Re: "How-to" request

2021-03-19 Thread Pascal Bourguignon
Le 19/03/2021 à 18:58, Marco Antoniotti a écrit : Hi I am trying to create a new ASDF:OPERATION, but I must be missing something and the manual (or Google) does not seem to help much. How do you create a new operation, which may be quite simple?  Or better, how do you get PERFORM and/or

"How-to" request

2021-03-19 Thread Marco Antoniotti
Hi I am trying to create a new ASDF:OPERATION, but I must be missing something and the manual (or Google) does not seem to help much. How do you create a new operation, which may be quite simple? Or better, how do you get PERFORM and/or OPERATE to actually do something for you. I know I should

Re: System cleanup

2021-03-19 Thread Didier Verna
"Robert Goldman" écrivait: > Didier, would you mind posting a GitLab issue for this? It's feasible, > but I'm so overloaded right now that there's no chance I will get to > it before I forget. Sure! -- ¡En Seguida! -- New album: https://www.didierverna.com/records/en-seguida.php Available

Re: System cleanup

2021-03-19 Thread Robert Goldman
Didier, would you mind posting a GitLab issue for this? It's feasible, but I'm so overloaded right now that there's no chance I will get to it before I forget. Thanks On 19 Mar 2021, at 8:34, Didier Verna wrote: François-René ÐVB Rideau écrivait: Before it can be ignored, it must be

Re: System cleanup

2021-03-19 Thread Didier Verna
François-René ÐVB Rideau écrivait: > Before it can be ignored, it must be defined. And so as to define it, > its class must be defined. I suppose we could have some error class > that it used when the class it not defined, that would only trigger an > error at runtime if the feature is true. I'm

Re: System cleanup

2021-03-19 Thread Didier Verna
François-René ÐVB Rideau écrivait: > Using git log test/test-defsystem-depends-on.script it looks like this > is https://bugs.launchpad.net/asdf/+bug/1445638 Looking for that bug > in git log, it was fixed in 3.1.4.5 on 2015-04-23. I'm proceeding with the second issue in my system, and it

Re: System cleanup

2021-03-19 Thread Andreas Davour
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, Faré wrote: Considering that SBCL upgraded to 3.1.5 in July 2015, I think you should be pretty safe assuming that your users' ASDF is more recent than 3.1.4. What more, even Xach seems to have miraculously seen the light: one months and one week ago, he updated the