Re: [asdf-devel] Status of :feature

On 3/23/11 Mar 23 -4:49 AM, Didier Verna wrote:

Hello,

what is the current status of :feature in a list of dependencies? I mean, is it safe to replace #+ reader conditionals in the asd file with it?

Thanks.

Related bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/asdf/+bug/545390

Wasn't there a bug where we said "we should not make people implement conditional branching by means of exception handling" (which is really what :if-component-dep-fails is used for)? I couldn't find it... If there isn't one, we should probably add such as an enhancement. Saying

(:when ....)

is probably a lot better than trying to grok an :if-component-dep-fails policy....

cheers, r