On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Faré
<fahree@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm thinking in particular of the stuff in asdf-ecl. Juanjo, do you
think it should be merged with ASDF itself? Especially in the light of
it being semi-useful on other platforms where fasls can be
concatenated? It might make things nicer if there is only one file
needed for ASDF.
Yes, but the point is that none of the things needed by those other platforms has been integrated and for these features to work properly we need fasl files themselves to be purer than they are -- otherwise concatenation does not suffice because the side effects of the system definitions would not propagate to those concatenated fasls.
Furthermore, if the features I mentioned some time ago are introduced, such as merging the load-source- and load-op operations, then we could reimplement *all* of the ECL extensions in a much more different and much more robust way.
So I would call for a not merging but also not further splitting at this particular release.
Juanjo