What are the methods defined by asdf-flv?
IIRC, POIU also has a few :around methods (it also doesn't properly support
ASDF 3.3 phases).
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 17:24 Robert Goldman wrote:
> An issue that came up discussing ASDF-FLV with Didier has to do with
> outside modification to exported ASDF generic functions. I think it's
> unambiguously reasonable to say "if you mess with unexported functions,
> generic or otherwise, you're on your own, and could break things
> arbitrarily."
>
> But I don't think ASDF has established clear expectations about extending
> methods of exported ASDF generic functions. I think there's been an
> unspoken assumption that if ASDF generic functions are to be extended,
> particularly by :around, :before, and :after methods, there should be
> some novel class introduced that will be used to select extensions. So, for
> example, it's fine to wrap or write new methods for perform, but not for
> existing component and operation classes. Doing so means that a change one
> might think appropriate for one's own library bleeds out into other code
> that one has no way of predicting, and also has the potential to collide
> with ASDF's own code or other people's ASDF extensions.
>
> Those are good reasons for this convention -- no modification without
> introducing new classes for method dispatch -- but ASDF-FLV is an example
> of a system that wants to introspect about the entire running lisp image.
> I'd be interested in hearing what people think about this kind of case.
> Should we introduce, for example, an ASDF object that extenders could add
> mixins to in order to enable modifications to ASDF behavior that aren't
> limited to a single library?
>
> Please post any thoughts you have about this idea.
>
