Re: ASDF bug?

On 4. Nov 2004, at 17:22, [email protected] wrote:

>> The commonly quoted method to handle non ".lisp" cl source file types
>>  with ASDF is:
>
>>  (defmethod source-file-type ((c cl-source-file)
>>                              (s (eql (find-system "foo))))
>>   "cl")
>
> This doesn't work for me because I might have mixed extensions within
> a single project. For example, the project that threw this error in
> the first place uses a file that I got from Franz that has a ".cl"
> extension, along with my own files, which I habitually give ".lisp"
> extensions. I don't really care whether what exactly the stock
> behavior is, but I think there really ought to be support for multiple
> extensions within a single project.  The modest suggestion I made
> previously seems like a small patch to allow this reasonable extension
> to the stock system.

You can give a :pathname argument to each individual file, which will 
be merged with the parent pathname (see the method 
component-relative-pathname for class source-file).  Granted, this 
makes you type the filename twice ...

HTH,

Rudi