2009/7/10 Stelian Ionescu sionescu@cddr.org:
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 ?
And break backwards compatibility?
Please DON'T!
Don't break backwards compatibility without many months of advance notice.
Which reminds me that I better get the XCVB interface right before I push it everywhere. Hence my requesting comments from beta-testers.
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