Re: asdf and provide / require

Gary King <[email protected]> Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:03:26 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I think I came across this once before:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.cclan.general/583

excellent; thanks. That'll save me having to do it again!

> What does feature-testing have to do with REQUIRE and PROVIDE (which
> deal with *MODULES*, not *FEATURES*)?


Nothing! Both modules and features are ways of trying to do the right  
thing given the current environment. ASDF doesn't currently provide a  
(convenient) way to load stuff if it isn't there (though it can load  
more stuff if some other stuff _is_ there). The extension to feature  
will help ameliorate this.


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