Faré wrote:
Faré, why is it that *source-registry-parameter* is exported? It seems
like a cache, and I don't understand why the user would need access to it.
You must be confusing *source-registry* and *source-registry-parameter*. The former is the cache after searching the various paths, and is private. The latter is the parameter provided to initialize-source-registry, and is exported specifically so that users may introspect what a another part of the program previous provided, and incrementally modify it. That's a feature that was requested by several users before I implemented it and exported the variable.
Is this written up somewhere (e.g., launchpad)?*
If you can point me to such a description, I will add it to the manual. Currently, there's no docstring, nor is the variable mentioned in the manual.
Thanks! r
* Alas, it seems with the new mailing list service at cl.net, we can only retrieve messages from the archive with a precise designator. I have no idea how to search the archive now. :-(