Re: [asdf-devel] Guard against (push "/foo/bar" asdf:*central-registry*)

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 12:31 +0200, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:

I think it's bitten pretty much all of us that we at least once tried to push a non-directory-designating filename to *CENTRAL-REGISTRY*.

It's a common pitfalls for newcomers.

Couldn't ASDF signal a warning when it encounters such a thing while grovelling through the registry?

Why not simply deprecate(or unexport *CENTRAL-REGISTRY*) and add a function REGISTER-ASDF-DIRECTORY that does all necessary checks ? -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib