Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
While ASDF can do this trivially, in order for vendor support to be nice for everyone involved, a two things need to be addressed:
1. Should *FEATURES* identify support for this? Maybe :FILE-LOCAL-VARIABLES?
2. What package does MAKE-VARIABLE-FILE-LOCAL reside in? I have a controversial suggestion. COMMON-LISP-EXTENSIONS, aka CL-EXT. CDR-EXT or CDR-11 are less controversial alternatives.
I wouldn't have any problem with every vendor using her own, already existing, extension package (e.g. sb-ext in your case). CDR packages is a nice idea but I'm wondering about a couple of things: - having a single CDR package sounds weird. How is "CDR" a relevant criterion for classification? Why would it be better than just using sb-ext? - CDR-<num> sounds better although it might lead to package proliferation: every time a CDR is updated, it gets a new number. - However, we can also have CDR-11 imported in CDR, imported in SB-EXT :-) As for *FEATURES*, I'm all in favor of having :CDR-<num> listed in there when appropriate. This could also be the topic for a new CDR ;-) -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Scientific site: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier Music (Jazz) site: http://www.didierverna.com