On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 19:47 -0500, Faré wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Stelian Ionescu sionescu@cddr.org wrote:
On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 19:12 -0500, Faré wrote:
I think the whole "temporary package" thing is a failure, and we
What problems does it actually cause ?
It causes having to maintain this weird system, having functions and classes the symbols of which become inaccessible, etc. It causes users having the wrong expectations and/or having to learn some magic semantics that do not apply to other cases.
Why inaccessible ?
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Successes:
- User-extensible methods specialized on the dual operation and
component class hierarchy. Big big win.
- moving pathname management out of individual system files into asdf
itself. Big big win.
- Using TRUENAME to simplify .asd management with a link farm. Big win
at the time, though ultimately not scalable.
I still use this and love it. Actually, I'd like to be able to be allowed to return to the old behavior where ASDF re-initializes the source registry on every find-system. Given that I only use quicklisp and a symlink directory on an SSD, that's preferable(I don't use the :directory scanning thing).