From: Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...> - 2006-02-21 13:41:13
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David Lichteblau <da...@li...> writes: > Quoting Nikodemus Siivola (nik...@ra...): > Without having looked at your patch, handling such a file should not be > more complex for a distributor than bundling contribs, right? I think it would: typical application delivery seems to me to involve loading the code and dumping an image, and bundling it somehow. Contribs are a non-issue for in that case. I can however imagine an application that suddenly needed unicode character names due to user-input... ...so to avoid need to separately bundle the file S-L-A-D would have to be extended with &KEY LOAD-UNICODE-NAMES or similar. Euugh. Making the unicode names a separate contrib seems more attractive if the 600k seems too much: (REQUIRE :SB-UNICODE-NAMES) would be simple enough, and less magical then autoloading. Cheers, -- Nikodemus Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious." Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs." |