Re: LispWorks 5.0 compatibility

Kevin Rosenberg <kevin-HJRc7zDS/[email protected]> Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:23:18 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clsql.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Edi Weitz wrote:
> 2. Switch the role of the package name and the nickname for CLSQL's
>    "POSTGRESQL" package (and skip the nickname for LispWorks 5.0).
>    This is only mildly intrusive for the CLSQL code base and should be
>    fully backwards compatible with virtually all code using CLSQL.
> I'd obviously prefer the second alternative.

I think that by specifying the POSTGRESQL nickname on non-Lispworks
platforms, only a few users might have to change their code to
accomodate the renaming of CLSQL's POSTGRESQL package. Further, the
only people it might inconvenience are Lispworks 5 users, but overall,
the patch's function is to help only Lispworks 5 users. So, it's a
reasonalbe tradeoff and I'll apply the second alternative.

Thanks for the help!

Kevin