Re: asdf example sought

Daniel Barlow <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]> writes:

> While this is terribly convenient for new software, it's perfectly
> plausible that it doesn't work so well for legacy software with its
> own ideas of filesystem layout.  So the :pathname option to components
> can be used to override this default.

What he says, but using different words:

It seems that some people come to asdf with the preconception that a
component name is a pathname.  This is not the case.  The pathname of
a component is notionally independent of the component name, but if
left unset (as is the normal way of working) it is defaulted according
to certain rules which involve the component name and do the probably
obvious thing.


-dan

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