Re: QuickLisp fails

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * Blake McBride <oy...@zp...zr> [2017-12-25 11:52:00 -0600]:
>
> Are you telling me that quicklisp hasn't worked since 2008?

I am telling you that since 2008 quicklisp compilation produced
a deprecation warning.

This is what is meant by:

"The old names are still available, but deprecated."

(see the news item quoted below).


> On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> wrote:
>
>> > * Blake McBride <oy...@zp...zr> [2017-12-25 09:04:39 -0600]:
>> >
>> >> It would be good if someone could file a pull request for updating
>> >> quicklisp to use DELETE-DIRECTORY instead of DELETE-DIR.
>> >
>> > I think the code should test and work in either case since some people
>> > may be using the old, released CLISP, and other would be using the
>> > current, HG, version.
>>
>> From clisp/src/NEWS:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> 2.44 (2008-02-02)
>> =================
>> ...
>> * Rename EXT:DELETE-DIR, EXT:MAKE-DIR, and EXT:RENAME-DIR to
>>   EXT:DELETE-DIRECTORY, EXT:MAKE-DIRECTORY, and EXT:RENAME-DIRECTORY,
>>   respectively, for consistency with EXT:PROBE-DIRECTORY,
>>   EXT:DEFAULT-DIRECTORY and CL:PATHNAME-DIRECTORY.
>>   The old names are still available, but deprecated.
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Do you think there are pre-2.44 CLISP installation around?
>>
>> Thanks.

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