Re: Two ASDF questions and a possible micro-bug

>>>>> "NS" == Nikodemus Siivola <[email protected]> writes:

    NS> Daniel Weinreb <[email protected]> writes:
    >> What is the :weakly-depends-on feature intended to be for?

    NS> Consider a system that can use, say, hook into CL-PDF to
    NS> produces output if it has been installed, but doesn't need it
    NS> for basic operation. :weakly-depends-on can be used to effect
    NS> just that.

    >> Is there ever a case where a component has no input files?  The
    >> code has a conditional that checks for this, but it's hard to
    >> see how it could ever arise, and perhaps it should signal an
    >> exception.

    NS> I don't see why it should be required: it doesn't seem a
    NS> likely source of problems, and someone may come up with a
    NS> clever use for it.

I think I once made a mock component that did a call to require.  I'm
not sure that was the smartest way to do what I was doing, but it
worked....

I was wondering if a test component might not someday do this....

Best,
Robert

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