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List:       sbcl-devel
Subject:    Re: [Sbcl-devel] logical-pathname-translations in 1.3.18
From:       "Robert P. Goldman" <rpgoldman () sift ! info>
Date:       2017-06-26 21:46:17
Message-ID: f0ca1d39-73ee-f537-828c-7d6061415899 () sift ! info
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On 6/26/17 Jun 26 -3:44 PM, Richard M Kreuter wrote:
> P.S., Logical pathnames were only included in the standard for one
> purpose, to provide an input notation for "system definition" tools
> (things in the vein of ASDF). They're not terribly general-purpose
> beyond that.

And for the record, ASDF has found that the diverging interpretations of
logical pathnames make them extremely risky to use in ASDF, to the point
that ASDF now has a configuration structure that makes logical pathnames
unnecessary.

ASDF *tries* to deal with logical pathnames, but often comes up short,
because they really don't have clear semantics.

Cheers,
r



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