This brings back one of the things I discussed long ago. TRAVERSE's behavior has to be documented and its behavior has to be specified and fixed. Either that or ASDF should stabilize a way to write extensions on top of it. I can not be hanging out there waiting for every improvement in ASDF to break our build system.

Incidentally, another thing that breaks ECL is that INPUT-FILES now has a default method with signature ((o operation) ...) That broke our default methods with signature ((o T) (c compiled-file))

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll@googlemail.com> wrote:
Before, if an operation defined by me, such as LIB-OP, did not traverse a system, then the only operation we got was that operation applied on the system, as a generic object.

Now TRAVERSE not only imposes the LIB-OP operation on the system, but it also scans the components and imposes the operation on the components.

Why such an incompatible change? It definitely screwed up ALL of ECL's extensions.

Juanjo

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