Re: Re: [cclan-list] Order of *CENTRAL-REGISTRY* traversal

On 12/7/05, Daniel Barlow <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 10:00:29AM +0200, Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
> > Currently ASDF traverses *CENTRAL-REGISTRY* head-to-tail: new locations
> > pushed to the front take precendence and older ones serve as fallbacks.
> > The behaviour undocumented.
>
> Though undocumented it was actually intentional: I was expecting that
> sites would have standard directories containing "release" code, and
> then individuals could push their personal directories - possibly
> containing development versions of systems with the same name - in
> front of that to override.
>

This is also how environment variables like LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PATH etc work.
To me it is the natural choice.

astor


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