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

[John F. <jf...@ms...>]

"Chun Tian (binghe)" <bin...@gm...> writes:
> 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.

Thanks! That's great. As far as I can see there was no need for eval at
all and this would be a tidy clean-up

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