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

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:29:29AM -0500, Todd Sabin wrote:
> >     TS> nil - force nothing (the default)
> >
> >     TS> t - force everything, but only in the system named in the
> >     TS> operate command

> That's probably a bug, but since :force is undocumented it's hard to
> say.

The short answer is that :force almost never does what you want it to,
no matter what you wanted.  If you force-rebuild :my-clim-system
because the fasl format has changed, you probably want the forcing to
propogate into :mcclim, but you probably don't want to attempt to
rebuild the system-installed SBCL contrib modules that it in turn
depends on - and the likelihood is that you don't have the file
permissions to do so anyway.

I never really came up with a good answer to that.  Maybe it needs the
concept of a "supersystem" or "project" which would mark the edges of
a group of related modules that forced operations should stop at the
edges of


-dan


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