[asdf-devel] Optional dependencies

2010-08-19 Thread Tobias C Rittweiler
Quite a few libraries come with reader hacks. They usually come with a ENABLE-FOO-SYNTAX function. I'd like those libraries to optionally depend on the named-readtables library, and define a named readtable that includes their hacks. So users can just use (IN-READTABLE FOO:SYNTAX) on a per-file ba

[asdf-devel] Should ASDF define many packages?

2010-08-19 Thread Faré
sds filed an interesting bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/620579 The question is whether we should avoid creating extra packages, and instead export all relevant functions from ASDF, or should we keep those separate packages ASDF-BOOTSTRAP and ASDF-UTILITIES. Does anyone of you use function