Re: XCVB, a replacement for ASDF

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

> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Robert P. Goldman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 1.  There is no way to wrap some actions around all of the operations
>> performed on a module; I believe that this is because we consider the
>> perform on a parent component to be done after the performs on all of
>> its sub-components
>
> It follows from the plan-then-execute, using
> deal-with-dependencies-on-the-run should take care of this.

I don't think it does, actually.  I think it follows from the
particular plan-then-execute model that ASDF settled on, but it's
perfectly possible to imagine a plan-then-execute model that supports
wrapping module operations: simply come up with a different plan.

Cheers,

Christophe

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