Re: [Portableaserve-discuss] cmucl package locks

[Rudi S. <ru...@co...>]

On 26. Feb 2004, at 14:44, Rudi Schlatte wrote:

>
> On 25. Feb 2004, at 13:02, Marco Baringer wrote:
>
>> I don't know if this is related the OSX port of CMUCL or just that 
>> recent cmucls implement package locks.
>>
>> Anyway, loading "library:subsystems;gray-streams" bracks the package 
>> lock if gray-streams are already present in the image, (require 
>> :gray-streams) avoids this issue. The symbol without-package-locks is 
>> defined in the extensions package, attempting to define it 
>> acl-compat.excl (which uses :ext) breaks this lock.
>>

In a recent mail to the cmucl developers list, Pierre Mai states that 
the behavior you describe is a bug that will be fixed so that both 
require and load of gray-streams does the right thing wrt package 
locks.
So, I'll leave it alone for the time being and re-test before the next 
release.  (The rationale for the recent changes is that I wanted to 
write :depends-on :cmucl-graystreams for both cons.org and debian 
cmucl, and asdf didn't want to operate on a system without any 
contents, just a :before action).

Rudi