From: Gary K. <gw...@me...> - 2008-12-30 18:04:32
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Hi Robert, My two cents is that adding this would be a Good Thing. Thanks for doing the work On Dec 30, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Robert Goldman wrote: > Christophe Rhodes wrote: >> Robert Goldman <rpg...@si...> writes: >> >>> E.M. Baringer's Arnesi library has an ASDF clean-op in its src/ >>> asdf.lisp >>> file (thanks to fe[nl]ix on #lisp for the pointer). Is there any >>> reason >>> this operation could not be imported into the core ASDF >>> distribution? >>> Cleaning out old FASLs seems like a very nice thing to have. >> >> The usual argument against is that clean-op is philosophically wrong: >> the output-files of which operation should it clean? >> >> I'm no longer sure that that argument holds water: the operation >> itself can know, by virtue of referring to the operation it's >> cleaning >> up for. Something like >> >> (defclass clean-op (operation) >> ((clean-for :initarg :clean-for)) >> (:default-initargs :clean-for (make-instance 'load-op))) >> >> Now (asdf:oos 'asdf:clean-op ...) will do the right thing, and those >> with special requirements can additionally do things like >> (asdf:oos 'asdf:clean-op ... :clean-for (make-instance 'test-op)) >> or similar. >> >> This probably isn't going to be a straightforward import of Marco's >> code (though maybe it is, I don't know); on the other hand, if this >> functionality were available in this form I would be happy. >> >> Best, >> >> Christophe >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> cclan-list mailing list >> ccl...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cclan-list >> > > I should have reread Marco's code more carefully before responding. > His > clean-op already takes a :for-op initarg that does what Christophe > suggests here. I didn't give him sufficient credit. > > But the default is compile-op, not load-op. > > I'm going to start by splicing the clean-op into my local copy of > asdf, > and will propose a patch if testing proves successful. > > Oh, yes, and I have written to Marco to ask if inserting his code > would > be acceptable, and under what circumstances. In particular, Arnesi > was > released under the Open Source license, whereas ASDF is released under > MIT/X license terms, and Marco asks for his copyright notice to be > preserved. > > Best, > R > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > cclan-list mailing list > ccl...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cclan-list -- Gary Warren King, metabang.com Cell: (413) 559 8738 Fax: (206) 338-4052 gwkkwg on Skype * garethsan on AIM |