Re: Could there be a way to disable LOAD-PREFERENCES?

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

> On 2/26/08, Gary King <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I think that preferences are a general enough thing that it makes
>> sense to include them in ASDF rather than reinventing the wheel
>> repeatedly. That would be my argument for including them.
>
> Ok, I think I can buy that, but...

I didn't mean to start a thread about the goodness of
LOAD-PREFERENCES, but I agree with all of Nikodemus's concerns.

IMO, it would have been better if preference loading functionality had
been associated with a subclass of SYSTEM (and probably not available
at the granularity of COMPONENT, either), so that authors could decide
whether to support customization.  (And even when an author doesn't
support customization, a user who wants to roll his own customization
can add an :AFTER method with an EQL-specializer, too.)

I have no information about the practical cost of changing how
preferences work in ASDF now that they're there, however.  All I'm
after right now is the ability to build things in a clean environment.

--
Richard


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