Re: [asdf-devel] asdf 1.600

On 2/4/10 Feb 4 -9:55 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Faré <fahree@gmail.com mailto:fahree@gmail.com> wrote:

I still would recommend 1.601 as it is an "official" release (whatever
that means) whereas 1.596 isn't.

Thanks. That is all I was asking for.

Note that ECL passes tests, if only I tell the test suite to not worry
about the warnings ECL issues while compiling asdf.lisp. It is
probably a bug in ECL that it should issue these warnings: plenty of
unused variable warnings for variables used while dispatching methods,
warnings about an unused variables CLOS::.GENERIC-FUNCTION.SI::TEMP as
introduced by ECL itself in some macro. Also annoying notes about
.COMBINED-METHOD-ARGS. was undefined. Compiler assumes it is a global.
Unknown type (VALUES &REST T)
And one about ECL expecting two arguments from unintern.
The problem with ignoring warnings from ECL is that, though I ignore
bogus warnings now, I may be ignoring valid warnings tomorrow.

I was aware of some of those warnings (.combined-method-args., *next-method*), as reported by other users and now fixed in the upcoming release, but not of others (temp?). In this case you should have immediately reported that problem so that I look at it, which I will do before the next release.

FWIW, I was having this problem with SBCL, too, and one of my recent patches is to make the test suite ignore style-warnings when compiling asdf.lisp (which used to cause the test suite to crash).

r