Re: ASDF component-self-dependencies

Gary King <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:21:07 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
HI Robert,

I don't know and it doesn't seem to return a non-nil value for any of  
the many systems I just checked. My reading of the code appears to be  
saying something like:

the input files of X, are either the output files of all the self- 
dependencies or X's pathname.

It also seems to me that direct-dependencies would be a better name  
than self-dependencies.

> Also, am I correct in thinking that component-depends-on is a  
> candidate
> for having its standard method combination replaced by append?  Or  
> would
> that be a mistake?

I think so, yes.

HTH,

On Sep 23, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:

> Does anyone have a clear understanding of the role of this function,  
> and
> its relationship to component-depends-on?  Examination suggests that  
> the
> coder considered the possibility that component-depends-on would
> overgenerate, returning some dependencies that actually didn't match  
> the
> component, and these dependencies would be weeded out by
> component-self-dependencies.  Is that correct?
>
> Anyone know why component-self-dependencies is a generic function?   
> It's
> internal, so I assume that the ASDF extender is not expected to extend
> this generic function.
>
> If someone can clue me in, I will try to write up a documentation  
> string
> that can be inserted into the source....
>
>
> thanks,
> r
>
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