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)?*
Not that I know.
If you can point me to such a description, I will add it to the manual.
The previous message is as close as you'll get to a description, I fear.
Currently, there's no docstring, nor is the variable mentioned in the manual.
That's a bug :-( Sorry.
- 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. :-(
If you search asdf-devel on google, you'll find that gmane and other mirror services have searchable archives.
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