Re: ASDF: module and system level dependencies don't work right?

[email protected] writes:

>>>>>> "GK" == Gary King <[email protected]> writes:
>
>     GK> Hi Todd,
>     GK> I like things the way they are though documenting the behavior  
>     GK> explicitly would be good. To my mind each module is a separate  
>     GK> "piece" and the flow of dependencies should stop at each boundary. On  
>     GK> the other hand, dependency ought to flow between the files within a  
>     GK> module. I don't have a good justification for this but it seems  
>     GK> reasonable enough to me and fits my mental model.
>
> But how does this work if there are modules that contain macro
> definitions that are consumed downstream?

Yes, this is the main problem that I have, though I don't think it's
limited to macros.

> I suppose one answer is "just don't that."  If everyone thinks that's
> a good answer, then just documenting it would be enough.

That would be pretty unsatisfactory from my point of view.  I have a
bunch of utility macros (e.g. with-gensyms, etc) that I use in totally
unrelated systems.  The only logical thing seems to be to put their
definitions in a 'utilities' system, and have everything else depend
on that.  How do others handle that situation?

> Is there a clear description (even intuitive) of the intended behavior
> of the :force argument?

I've looked at it some more, and think I understand it now.  The
things you can specify with :force (I think):

nil - force nothing (the default)

t  - force everything, but only in the system named in the operate command

a list of system specifiers - force everything within the named systems

any other atom - force everything, in this and systems depended on

-- 
Todd Sabin                                          <[email protected]>


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