Re: [PATCH] add a RETRY restart to the MISSING-DEPENDENCY error

On 4/15/07, Luis Oliveira <[email protected]> wrote:
> > a missing-dependency condition, and if the required-component matches
> > the one it's offering to retry.
>
> Thanks for your comments.  I've attached a modified patch that adds a
> restart :test like the one you describe.
>
> For the record, I'm not sure if offering to retry the load of the parent
> components in the dependency chain is a completely bad idea.  For
> instance, with the original patch, if system A depends on system B and
> ASDF fails to find system B, two RETRY restarts, one for reloading A the
> other for B, would be available.  If A's dependency on B was bogus, the
> former restart might be useful.

The main thing I'm concerned about is being able to find and invoke
the restart programmatically.  With the test function, you can search
for an arbitrary RETRY restart with find-restart and make-condition.

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