Re: ASDF test-op

Robert Goldman <[email protected]> writes:

>>  2. control the stream to which ASDF sends output during an operation
>> 
>> In particular, we'd like to do this for test-ops but other ops could
>> also make use of this.
>> 
>> The most general solution might be to
>> 
>>  1. add a generic function:
>> 
>>      (defgeneric output-stream-for-component-and-operation (component
>> operation))
>> 
>>  2. add an `output-stream` slot to operation
>
> 2.5 Add an :output-stream initarg to operation.  I figure that this was
> implicit in your 2, but just wanted to be explicit...
> [etc.]

Hi,

Doesn't ASDF already write all of its output to a particular stream,
namely *verbose-out*?  (Provided you've bound it to something, of
course) Couldn't you just document that test-op writers should write
to that stream?  Or maybe that doesn't work because, by default, it's
bound to nil, so you define another dynamic variable *test-output*, or
something, and document that?

I guess I don't really understand the problem you're solving, and I'm
wondering why all the CLOS machinery is necessary...

-- 
Todd Sabin                                          <[email protected]>

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