Re: mk-defsystem and logical pathnames on ACL 6.1

[Bob R. <ro...@rg...>]

   From: Marco Antoniotti <ma...@cs...>
   Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:23:48 -0500

   > From: Bob Rogers <ro...@rg...>
   > Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:07:54 -0500

   > I'm glad we agree, but I'm sorry to hear that you are less than happy
   > with the situation.

   I am not happe because it requires work . . .

Understandable.  I would be glad to help, to the extent that I am able;
just let me know what you need.

   Speaking of which, it occurred to me that an :mk-use-native-lpn
switch on *features* might help clarify some of the messy reader
conditionalization used in the code . . .

   > When I started in Lisp, it was with Lisp Machines,
   > where the assumption has always been that physical pathnames are ugly,
   > limited, and nonportable (albeit more so then than now), and therefore
   > logical pathnames are always preferred when dealing with files in
   > general -- and source files in particular.

   I understand.  Note however, that there are people who think that
   LOGICAL-PATHANAMES should be banished :)

Hmmm.  Sounds utopian to me.  When the world can agree on a single
physical pathname syntax, and that all source files for package foo
belong in /usr/local/src/foo, then we will finally be able to punt
logical pathnames, and will have achieved True Communism into the
bargain . . . ;-}

					-- Bob