Re: [Sbcl-devel] pathname versions in physical pathnames

[Marco A. <ma...@cs...>]

On Friday, Jan 23, 2004, at 19:37 America/New_York, James A. Crippen 
wrote:

> Nikodemus Siivola <tsi...@cc...> writes:
>
>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Christophe Rhodes wrote:
>>
>>> The patch is attached; please glance at it, as I'm sure I've missed
>>> something.
>>
>> No comments on the patch itself, but I for one think that dropping 
>> version
>> support is a good move.
>>
>> If SBCL ran on a platform with a versioning filesystem that mapped 
>> even
>> half-sanely to the CL versioning scheme things would be different, 
>> but...
>
> It might be nice to recognize the Emacs and Symbolics versioning
> scheme for UNIX, which is foo.ext.~23~

I think CMUCL does this.  You can check the past mails.  I do not know 
if this has been ported to SBCL.
If I remember correctly it does

	foo.ext~42~

(no dot before the version, and 42 is - obviously - the only version 
that really matters :) )

Cheers

marco
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