On 17/12/17 12:02, 73budden . wrote:
Nicolas, can you resolve source locations at SWANK level? E.g.
functions like SWANK/SBCL::SOURCE-FILE-SOURCE-LOCATION might be
appropriate for patching: you take the location that SBCL gives you,
but then redirect SWANK to other place. I guess this is not the only
place you have to patch, it would require patching private functions
and it might not work at all. But if that works for you please let me
know. I'm also maintaining a thing a bit similar to portacle and it
looks like I would suffer from the same issue.
That sounds like a really nasty workaround. I'd much rather try to
get ASDF to use logical pathnames.
Logical pathnames are never the solution, especially not if portability means anything, and if SBCL is targeted in particular.
Too many systems have file names that just can't be valid logical pathnames (that are limited strictly to single-case letters, digits, and dashes, plus a dot only to separate the similarly-limited type). Underscores, mixed case, wrong case, plus sign, dot, and whatever else are not allowed, yet may be implied by the .asd file.
Good luck convincing all authors in Quicklisp of renaming their files and directories (though this renaming could conceivably be done automatically after the fact, combined with large logical pathname mapping tables, for atrocious performance and horrible bugs when that fails; good luck with that kluge).
I recommend aiming for a true solution, which implies adding the capability of overriding the pathname to SBCL's compile-file then UIOP's compile-file* and ASDF's compile-op, and/or non-compliant lax pass-through logical pathnames a la CCL.
-#f