On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Robert P. Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info wrote:
Per the principle of failing obviously, I propose to raise an error upon attempts to use bundle-op with ECL or ABCL on Mac OSX. The bundle-op tests have been failing for me on those platforms for as long as I can remember.
For ECL, at least, I believe this to be an implementation bug, having to do with the Mac's 32-/64-bit hybrid architecture. With the current disarray in ECL maintenance, I don't see any signs of this being fixed.
For ABCL the cause of this issue is more mysterious, but it is still persistent.
Unless someone squawks, where "squawks" includes "explains why this test failure is specific to me or provides a proposed patch," I will make that change.
Didn't you disable the test in e2b70dd1 before 3.0.3?
Do you mean you want the code to issue an early error without even trying? I think that's a bad idea that only makes the real issue harder to see and fix; as long as the backtrace makes it clear where the thing is failing, there's no need to obfuscate the implementation bug. At worst, maybe wrap the issue in a handler-bind that adds ASDF's own warning to the error?
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