Re: [lisp-snmp] Patch to asn.1 to change from parsergen to a modified cl-yacc

[Chun T. (binghe) <bin...@gm...>]

Hi John,

On 2009-2-24, at 17:11, John Fremlin wrote:

> Dear Chun Tian,
>
> Most of the short MIB package names are fine. If they are validated by
> you at compile time that is doubly fine.
>
> The problem is in loading in user defined package names at runtime. It
> is important that we don't cause name collisions if the user for some
> reason wants to load in an MIB which might, for example, have the same
> name as our application (which is already a Lisp package).
>
> Perhaps having an option to avoid polluting the global package  
> namespace
> is a good idea. I guess we should rewrite the runtime loading in of  
> MIB
> files anyway (unless you've already done that?), but after asking for
> this feature the customer has shown absolutely no interest in it
> whatsoever so I guess it isn't important.


The "runtime loading in of MIB files" feature haven't been supported.  
And I do have a plan to implemented it without EVAL, COMPILE and any  
other things which make delivery hard. No matter whether you and your  
customer need it, this is a standard feature and I'll finish it in a  
week.

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Chun Tian (binghe)
NetEase.com, Inc.
P. R. China