I'm still curious as to _why_ component property is going away, not (just) how you think folks should work around its absence.
thanks,
Cyrus
On Jan 31, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Faré fahree@gmail.com wrote:
On the one hand, I am deprecating component-property in ASDF3,
Why? What will be the new mechanism for what component-property provides?
I propose that any data that component-property is actually used for should be in appropriate slots of the system. I will gather a list from things in quicklisp.
As for extensibility, there is already defclass for that. Or comments, when the meta-data isn't for machine consumption.
This will not happen for ASDF 2.27, but hopefully for 3.0. Even after it happens, a compatibility layer will be provided for old code; but its use for new code will be strongly discouraged, e.g. by droppng the data that doesn't fit the backward-compatibility schema, and/or issuing an error if the system is not whitelisted.
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