Re: [asdf-devel] I think new ASDF has busted asdf-binary-locations

2009-09-09 Thread james anderson
On 2009-09-09, at 17:54 , Robert Goldman wrote: > james anderson wrote: >> [...] >>> 2. Logical pathnames are defined in ANSI CL to use case-flattened >>> pathnames. That means they are an extremely poor fit for modern >>> case-sensitive file systems. Some number of existing ASDF systems >>> w

Re: [asdf-devel] I think new ASDF has busted asdf-binary-locations

2009-09-09 Thread Robert Goldman
james anderson wrote: > On 2009-09-09, at 16:27 , Robert Goldman wrote: > >> james anderson wrote: >>> hello; >>> >>> i recall, that we have started down this path before, but we never >>> got very far, so i would like to pick up the thread again: >>> >>> what exactly fails (or is just inconsisten

Re: [asdf-devel] I think new ASDF has busted asdf-binary-locations

2009-09-09 Thread james anderson
On 2009-09-09, at 16:27 , Robert Goldman wrote: > james anderson wrote: >> hello; >> >> i recall, that we have started down this path before, but we never >> got very far, so i would like to pick up the thread again: >> >> what exactly fails (or is just inconsistent) in the respective >> logical

Re: [asdf-devel] I think new ASDF has busted asdf-binary-locations

2009-09-09 Thread Faré
Note that I have been maintaining my variant of A-B-L as part of cl-launch, and upon noticing that resolve-symlinks had been removed, I immediately issued a new release 2.23 of cl-launch. I for one would welcome A-B-L becoming part of ASDF, so I could have cl-launch just use that (after a transiti

Re: [asdf-devel] I think new ASDF has busted asdf-binary-locations

2009-09-09 Thread Robert Goldman
james anderson wrote: > hello; > > i recall, that we have started down this path before, but we never > got very far, so i would like to pick up the thread again: > > what exactly fails (or is just inconsistent) in the respective > logical pathname implementations to preclude accomplishing th

Re: [asdf-devel] I think new ASDF has busted asdf-binary-locations

2009-09-09 Thread Robert Goldman
Attila Lendvai wrote: >> Maybe this would be a good time to push A-B-L into the ASDF repository? >> I've always been in favor of this, acnyway, since it's such a critical >> extension. IMO it would be great if anyone who had ASDF could also get >> A-B-L with no more work than a call to asdf:oos.

Re: [asdf-devel] I think new ASDF has busted asdf-binary-locations

2009-09-09 Thread Attila Lendvai
> Maybe this would be a good time to push A-B-L into the ASDF repository? >  I've always been in favor of this, acnyway, since it's such a critical > extension.  IMO it would be great if anyone who had ASDF could also get > A-B-L with no more work than a call to asdf:oos. why with an asdf:oos? why

Re: [asdf-devel] I think new ASDF has busted asdf-binary-locations

2009-09-09 Thread james anderson
hello; i recall, that we have started down this path before, but we never got very far, so i would like to pick up the thread again: what exactly fails (or is just inconsistent) in the respective logical pathname implementations to preclude accomplishing the same thing with logical pathname

Re: [asdf-devel] I think new ASDF has busted asdf-binary-locations

2009-09-09 Thread Robert Goldman
Gary King wrote: > (cc'd to list) > > Damn. The function disappeared recently (by my hand). I didn't realize > (obviously) that it was used. I'll fix. Gary, Maybe this would be a good time to push A-B-L into the ASDF repository? I've always been in favor of this, acnyway, since it's such a crit

Re: [asdf-devel] I think new ASDF has busted asdf-binary-locations

2009-09-09 Thread Gary King
(cc'd to list) Damn. The function disappeared recently (by my hand). I didn't realize (obviously) that it was used. I'll fix. On Sep 8, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Robert Goldman wrote: > I just updated, and now can't start up lisp because > asdf-binary-locations calls ASDF::RESOLVE-SYMLINKS which seem