Re: [asdf-devel] What are current plans for RMCL?

On 11 Apr 2012, at 17:59, Far=E9 wrote:

> (Misclicked and the message was sent before it was finished. Grrr.)
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> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:02, Pascal Costanza <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'd like to get an idea what the current plans for RMCL are, if any. Sin=
ce the switch to OS X 10.7, there is no default support for old PowerPC app=
lications on OS X anymore, so RMCL doesn't work anymore, at least not witho=
ut a major effort. Are there any plans to find a remedy for this situation?=
 Or will RMCL effectively become deprecated?
>> =

> As usual, I will accept patches. I will not be able to test RMCL anymore.
> =

> =

>> I'm asking for the following reasons: When ASDF was changed from 1.x to =
2.x, this caused some problems for RMCL, which I eventually resolved by usi=
ng Common Lisp's logical pathnames for the systems I maintain (primarily Cl=
oser to MOP and ContextL). However, the current maintainers of ASDF have an=
 unjustified very low regard for logical pathnames, which causes a lot of p=
ain - basically, whenever a new version of a Common Lisp implementation com=
es bundled with a new ASDF version, I have to deal with bugs in ASDF that i=
n one way or the other break my setup with logical pathnames.
>> =

> The problems were fixed as soon as a suitable bug report was provided
> (i.e. not by you).

I have submitted bug reports, and provided descriptions of my setup (I thin=
k, actually, more than once). Have you entered them in the test suite for A=
SDF? (Do you have a test suite for ASDF?) I find it hard to believe they do=
n't show up on your side if you continue testing that setup. (The bugs occu=
r in SBCL, Clozure and LispWorks, for example=85)


Pascal

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