Re: Slime and ASDF

I've been forward-porting my ASDF-based swank loader for the last
decade. I guess you'll get a PR soon :)

>
> The problem is the pull request you mentioned is that it's one of
> those $#!@#$-backwards-compatibility sort of change. That sort of
> mindset yields very rewarding refactoring sessions, to be sure, but
> annoys everyone else. A PR implementing proper (but optional) loading
> via ASDF is IMO welcome.> Thanks,
> Luís
> 
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 10:55 AM Attila Lendvai
> <[email protected]> wrote:>> [moving this to slime-devel]
>> 
>> 
>>  > I recently banged my head against something similar. Turns out,
>>  > mcclim loads>>  > swank, so be sure to delete .slime/fasl too.
>> 
>> 
>>  been there... that's why my slime locally uses
>>  asdf:apply-output-translations for a few years now.
>> 
>>  slime used to be proudly ASDF free, but maybe that's something to
>>  reconsider, at least with an optional support.
>> 
>>  this is what i'm running with (which i don't recommend for inclusion>>  in this form):
>> 
>>  (defun binary-pathname (src-pathname binary-dir)
>>    "Return the pathname where SRC-PATHNAME's binary should be
>>    compiled.">>  +  (declare (ignore binary-dir))
>>  +  #+asdf
>>  +  (asdf:apply-output-translations src-pathname)
>>  +  #-asdf
>>    (let ((cfp (compile-file-pathname src-pathname)))
>>      (merge-pathnames (make-pathname :name (pathname-name cfp)
>>                                      :type (pathname-type cfp)))))
>> 
>>  but if the maintainers are open for this direction, then i may look>>  into packaging up and testing a PR for integrating ASDF
>>  properly, and>>  optionally.
>> 
>>  and not forgetting this either:
>>  https://github.com/slime/slime/pull/282/>> 
>>  currently swank can break in funny ways when used together
>>  with ASDF.>>  e.g. :depends-on (:swank) can be a source of great bafflement when
>>       it>>  reloads swank and undo's half of the contrib's, leaving some stuff
>>  crippled. and the .slime/fasl dir can also bite you when you thought>>  you have deleted the fasl's, except one outlier.
>> 
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>> 


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