On 19 November 2010 15:22, Krzysztof Drewniak <krzysdrewniak@gmail.com> wrote:
Rationale: To make asdf easier to use by providing a standard interface for configuring, installing, and removing systems
Details: To facilitate easier configuration, installation, and removal of asdf systems, I propose 2 new operations and 2 new functions be added. The operations would be install-op and remove-op, and the functions would be configure and config-of
* New function: configure * New operation: install-op * New function config-get * New operation: remove-op [...]
1- No one else than yourself will implement this proposal. 2- It's not clear that anyone would use it. What problem are you solving? How does it help? 3- As for precise semantics, how do your operations recurse or not recurse to dependencies? 4- How do you distinguish between fasls compiled with different options.
[P.S. I will not be available between 09/22/2010 and 09/29/2010 due to a vacation resort in Mexico which has an 80% chance of no free Internet] Your .sig is obsolete.
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