Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF improvements from ECL

2009-11-11 Thread Tobias C. Rittweiler
Robert Goldman writes: > [As an aside, I'm intrigued that you are using RT --- we gave up on it > eventually because it's state is all global, so that we were never > comfortable that stuff we set up to test in one system would not clash > with tests in other systems] For my needs so far, I a

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF improvements from ECL

2009-11-10 Thread Faré
2009/11/10 Robert Goldman : > An additional problem is that there is no clear relationship between the > ASDF project and the versions of ASDF shipped with implementations. > > I find that this is a strong disincentive for me to work on even > backwards-compatible extensions to ASDF (asdf extension

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF improvements from ECL

2009-11-10 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Robert Goldman wrote: > FWIW, I'd suggest > > (defsystem my-package >  :class rt-testable-system >  :components . > ) > > When you do (oos 'test-op 'my-package), the rt-testable-system > (presumably a subclass of system and rt-testable-mixin) would take care >

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF improvements from ECL

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Goldman
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: > > Furthermore, in order to answer your question, what I expect of the > test facility is that once every framework hooks in, one is able to > write > > (defsystem :my-package > :components ((:file "my-package")) > :in-order-to ((test-op (rt-test-op :my-package-

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF improvements from ECL

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Goldman
Faré wrote: > (Moving the discussion from the ecl list to the asdf list, > originally Re: ECL support for cl-launch and xcvb) > > 2009/11/9 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll : [...snip...] >> This is another thing I have been asking help from the ASDF >> maintainers. We cannot push our extensions upstream u

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF improvements from ECL

2009-11-10 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote: > Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll writes: > >> When I find time, in a week or so, I will try to produce a set of >> patches for the following things: >> - A new function that creates a sorted list of module dependencies >> wrapping around TRAVE

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF improvements from ECL

2009-11-10 Thread Tobias C. Rittweiler
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll writes: > When I find time, in a week or so, I will try to produce a set of > patches for the following things: > - A new function that creates a sorted list of module dependencies > wrapping around TRAVERSE This function should produce the same result > irrespectively of w

Re: [asdf-devel] ASDF improvements from ECL

2009-11-10 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Faré wrote: > The problem is that you'll find no one to bless your changes, as ASDF > does not have a clearly defined dictator, the original author having left, > our main maintainer not having the resources to become one, and a vast > undefined community of users

[asdf-devel] ASDF improvements from ECL

2009-11-09 Thread Faré
(Moving the discussion from the ecl list to the asdf list, originally Re: ECL support for cl-launch and xcvb) 2009/11/9 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll : >> For the record, the issue I finally found and fixed in building an >> image was as follows: asdf:traverse is traversing system dependencies > > I hav