Fare, Zach, thank you for the comments. As you might have guessed, I was totally unaware of that. Always having loaded systems the way I described, I have never encountered a problem, adding immediately that I go to the directory where the software is that I want to work on, after perhaps having loaded some systems I regularly use in the same manner. Working with compiled .asd files never gave me a problem. Can you give a reason for not compiling .asd files? What are the advantages of accessing .asd files only by means of asdf:find-system? I surely must have configured something very wrongly, here it takes a very long time and chances are the system I am after will not be found... Sorry for insisting, but can you tell me why exactly, i.e., the advantages of (asdf:find-system <system.) and the disadvantages of mine? Hoping to hear & kind regards, Ernst Faré schreef op vr 20-05-2011 om 16:47 [-0400]:
On 20 May 2011 16:18, Zach Beane <xach@xach.com> wrote:
.asd files should not be loaded directly with cl:load or any shortcut that involves cl:load, like cl path/to/whatever.asd. ASDF sets up an environment when loading an .asd file that is not the same as the environment established by cl:load.
The only way (with which I'm familiar) to properly load an .asd file is via asdf:find-system.
Indeed.
In recent versions of ASDF, I have factored out of find-system an internal function (asdf::load-sysdef "/path/to/foo.asd") that does the right thing. But I haven't exported the function so far, because I believe you should only be loading them via find-system, which for the longest time had been the only interface to that functionality. You should certainly never compile-file a .asd file — though I've been known to C-c C-k some of them at the SLIME REPL and regret it later.
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