Re: ds:system-subsystems ?

It almost sounds as if you are re-implementing the functionality 
provided by the "require" function. Can you explain how what you are 
looking for differs from "require" and "provide"?

At 9:04 PM +0100 4/5/05, Tiago Maduro-Dias wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I've been working on an extension to Allegro's system definition 
>framework but I've sort of hit a dead-end with this. One of the 
>features I'm trying to include is the "automatic on-demand load" of 
>systems. In order to do this I need to know the subsystems of a 
>given system.
>
>There is an unexported system-subsystem function that does what I 
>want in the composer package, but no such function in the defsystem 
>package. Of course that function is not available under Windows so 
>using it isn't the best solution...
>
>What would the "correct" way of doing this be? Map-system doesn't 
>seem to be of much help if the system isn't already loaded (in which 
>case the subsystems' modules will be available and the 
>containing-system function would give me a way of enumerating all 
>systems involved, not really useful though). I've also tried looking 
>at list-all-systems, which would solve the particular problem of 
>making sure all systems were loaded, but that seems to be too much 
>of a hack and would also limit me in some other features I'm hoping 
>to implement.
>
>Now that I've shared my frustrations with you all... Any ideas? I 
>found it reasonably surprising that no such function already exists.
>
>Thanks for your time,
>
>Tiago Maduro-Dias.
>
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