On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:49 PM, John Li <jli@circularly.org> wrote:

Hello,

[I hope it's okay to mail you directly - I mailed cl-irc-devel initially, but the list apparently requires subscription.]

I tried to install cl-irc 0.8.1 through asdf-install on SBCL today and got this error:

---------------------------------------------------------------- ; compiling (DEFUN READ-MESSAGE-LOOP ...); compilation aborted because of fatal error: ; READ failure in COMPILE-FILE: ; SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR at 12354 (line 349, column 56) on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /home/jli/.sbcl/site/cl-irc-0.8.1/protocol.lisp" {B0B19E1}>: ; Symbol "FLEXI-STREAM-ENCODING-ERROR" not found in the FLEXI-STREAMS package. ; compilation aborted after 0:00:00

WARNING: COMPILE-FILE warned while performing #<COMPILE-OP NIL {AE24061}> on #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "protocol" {A8F0201}>.

debugger invoked on a ASDF:COMPILE-FAILED in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" RUNNING {A834589}>: erred while invoking #<COMPILE-OP NIL {AE24061}> on #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "protocol" {A8F0201}> ----------------------------------------------------------------

Line 349 of protocol.lisp is in this function:

---------------------------------------------------------------- (defun try-decode-line (line external-formats) (loop for external-format in external-formats for decoded = nil for error = nil do (multiple-value-setq (decoded error) (handler-case (flexi-streams:with-input-from-sequence (in line) (let ((flexi (flexi-streams:make-flexi-stream in ;; :element-type 'character :external-format (external-format-fixup external-format)))) (read-line flexi nil nil))) (flexi-streams:flexi-stream-encoding-error () ;; <-- line 349 nil))) if decoded do (return decoded))) ----------------------------------------------------------------

The flexi-streams package that asdf-install automatically installed is 1.0.5. The flexi-streams documentation (http://weitz.de/flexi-streams/) doesn't refer to any flexi-stream-encoding-error, though there is an external-format-encoding-error. Replacing the former with the latter allowed cl-irc to compile, though I haven't used cl-irc enough at this point to tell if this is actually correct.

Could someone [you :)] confirm that this is change is correct?

I think this is indeed correct: the flexi-streams version cl-irc used to be based on was a pre-1.0 version. Apparently, some classes have been renamed. I'll check in the repository if this has already been updated. If not, consider it so. However, since there's some partially completed code in the trunk, I can't really create a new release the way it is now. So, until usocket has its 0.4 release, we're stuck with the version currently available on the web as the latest release. Bye, Erik.