On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> wrote:

Question: should we raise a style warning if the user supplies a
logical pathname that does not comply with the ANSI spec? I would
prefer that we do that.

The first question is whether we are going to provide a logical hostname or whether instead we will allow the user to provide a full logical pathname translation. That is

:logical-host "CL-PPCRE"

versus

:logical-path "CL-PPCRE:MY-DESIRED;SET;OF;VIRTUAL;DIRECTORIES;*.*.*"

The latter is trickier and proner to break. If we use the former we can provide two sets of translations

CL-PPCRE:FASL;*.*.* -> whatever binary directory
CL-PPCRE:**;*.*.* -> source directory

So I would stay with that.

Question: are we going to create a logical pathname translation for
just the system sources? Or should we create also something like

CL-PPCRE;FASLS;*.*.*

in addition? This seems a little tricky, since it requires that we hook
into the output name rewriting logic, but probably is The Right Thing.