Re: unloading/reloading an asdf system

On Tue Mar 07 2006 at 08:59, Gary King <[email protected]> wrote:

> ASDF keeps track of the load time and compile time of the files in a
> system, not the consequences of actually loading those files (which
> would be very hard, IMHO). As far as ASDF knows, you loaded the files
> already and so it doesn't need to load them again even after you
> delete the package.
>

Thanks Gary. Your explanation makes sense: ASDF just keeps track of
files, not loaded packages. I guess I was looking for ASDF:LOAD-OP (or
some other ASDF command I hadn't found yet) to check if the packages
were present using something like FIND-PACKAGE.

> FWIW, I _don't_ see the same behavior as you do. Here is part of
> session in MCL with moptilities:

I'm not sure, since your pasted examples use ":force t". Everything
works fine for me also when using the force flag. I was just looking for
some behavior that isn't there: without the force flag it would just
reload the deleted package's missing fasls, without the recompiling that
occurs with the force flag.

-Craig McDaniel


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