On 21 Nov 2024, at 12:38, Alexandru Popa wrote:
OK, thank you very much.
The problem with ASDF on QuickLisp is a bug, so I hope to convince them to update ASDF.
Good luck with that! That's a 7 year old version of ASDF, and Xach hasn't been interested in upgrading in all that time, although I have offered support.
If you contact him, you can tell him again from me that if there's anything I can do to make adoption of a new ASDF go better, I'm happy to do it.
чт, 21 нояб. 2024 г. в 20:29, Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info:
Thanks for the updates. AFAIK Xach is uninterested in bundling a newer version of ASDF. I regret this, but there's nothing I can do about it. It would be great to get a more up-to-date version of ASDF bundled with CLISP; if there's anything that keeps that from happening, LMK, and I will try to help and coordinate with the CLISP team.
As I said, anything that the CLISP team could do to support ASDF testing would be welcome. I am *somewhat* knowledgeable about the CL Foundation Docker images, and have managed to roll new ones for SBCL, Allegro, etc. for testing purposes, so I could help with Dockerizing CLISP if there's anyone who's interested.
On 21 Nov 2024, at 12:15, Alexandru Popa wrote:
Hi Robert and sorry for not testing latest ASDF. The problem actually was detected during playing with QuickLisp, and I was under impression it has a relatively recent version of ASDF.
Tested with ASDF-master (https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf), version 3.3.7.2, :HAIKU, :OS-HAIKU, :UNIX and :OS-UNIX are all present, which is probably good. Tested with ASDF from QuickLisp (https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/), version 3.2.1, :UNIX and :OS-UNIX are present, :HAIKU is removed. Tested with ASDF from CLIPS (https://gitlab.com/gnu-clisp/clisp), version 3.2.0, :UNIX and :OS-UNIX are present, :HAIKU is removed.
So, the solution is just using a more recent ASDF version. I will communicate this to both CLISP and QuickLisp teams. I will also ask Haiku and CLISP teams to provide a docker image or testing.
Thank you, Alexandru
чт, 21 нояб. 2024 г. в 17:45, Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info:
Please check [this merge request])( https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/merge_requests/147) and the corresponding ASDF issue https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/issues/37 .
Is CLISP bundling an up-to-date version of ASDF?
Please let me know, and if the above do not address the issue, open a new issue on the ASDF gitlab site https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/asdf/asdf/-/issues and I will see about getting this fixed and issuing a bug fix release.
It would be very helpful if the clisp community could point me at a Docker image for Haiku + clisp so that I could put this configuration into test.
Indeed, it would be very helpful to have a CLISP docker image for linux kept updated for test purposes. The lack of an official release version hampers my testing substantially; so much so that I have dropped clisp from the test suite. It's impossible to know what to test when there hasn't been an official release in 14 years.
On 21 Nov 2024, at 5:26, Alexandru Popa wrote:
Haiku is an operation system different from Windows, Linux or *BSD. Still, in many respects it can be considered Unix-like, which is especially true when porting software to it.
CLISP was recently ported to Haiku. In the *features*, CLISP on Haiku defines both :UNIX (i.e. Unix-like) and :HAIKU, and this is probably the right decision. However, after (require "asdf"), *features* are changed, :HAIKU is removed and :OS-UNIX is added. This is certainly something which needs to be fixed. The desired solution would be to keep both :UNIX, :HAIKU and to add :OS-HAIKU.
Here is the analysis from CLISP development list:
(defun detect-os () "Detects the current operating system. Only needs be run at compile-time, except on ABCL where it might change between FASL compilation and runtime." (loop* :with o :for (feature . detect) :in '((:os-unix . os-unix-p) (:os-macosx . os-macosx-p) … (:haiku . os-haiku-p)) :when (and (or (not o) (eq feature :os-macosx)) (funcall detect)) :do (setf o feature) (pushnew feature *features*) :else :do (setf *features* (remove feature *features*)) :finally (return (or o (error "Congratulations for trying ASDF on an operating system~%~ that is neither Unix, nor Windows, nor Genera, nor even old MacOS.~%Now you port it."))))) That is somewhat brittle code that side-effects *FEATURES*. It contains a special bypass to allow :OS-MACOSX to live there beside :OS-UNIX, but there’s nothing equivalent for Haiku. Whether Haiku is considered a UNIX or not I won’t debate. I call such code /brittle/ because there’s an undocumented (non-explicitly mentioned) dependency on element order in some innocuous list: If :os-macosx were before :os-unix in the A-list, that code would not set – and rather delete – :OS-UNIX in *features*. I would have appreciated a tiny comment like :for (feature . detect) :in '(… (:os-unix . os-unix-p) (:os-macosx . os-macosx-p) ; Beware, unix must come first! ''' Alexandru Popa Robert P. Goldman Research Fellow Smart Information Flow Technologies (d/b/a SIFT, LLC) 319 N. First Ave., Suite 400 Minneapolis, MN 55401 Google Voice: (612) 326-3934 Cell: (612) 384-3454 Email: rpgoldman@SIFT.netRobert P. Goldman Research Fellow Smart Information Flow Technologies (d/b/a SIFT, LLC)
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