Re: asdf example sought

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:06:10AM +0000, Daniel Barlow wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> 

Thank you for the pointers - cl-http's sources are split into common and
implementation-specific areas so it will take some work to convert its
portability ideas into what asdf is intended for.

David



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