[Openmcl-devel] Fwd: ASDF-INSTALL Problems (Many)

[Wade Humeniuk]

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From: Wade Humeniuk <wade.humeniuk at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Openmcl-devel] ASDF-INSTALL Problems (Many)
To: "R. Matthew Emerson" <rme at clozure.com>


Thanks Matthew,

My personal feeling is that the asdf-install code should be reworked.
There is too many read-time conditionals spread out everywhere in the
code.  Perhaps there should be custom Lisp Implementation files that
implement things like  downloading, unarchiving and symlinking asd
files. (However I think that by doing that we might just have separate
implementation of asdf-install for CCL).

I would be willing to work on creating a reworked CCL asdf-install.
(If Clozure thinks it is a good idea).  As a note, when using SBCL's
asdf-install it feels like they have a customized one.

Yeah...  what is the future of asdf-install?  Perhaps something like
the BKNR approach where there is a coherent SVN repository of Lisp
projects might be better.

As a user it seems that I end up needing about 30 asdf projects.

Wade

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:51 PM, R. Matthew Emerson <rme at clozure.com> wrote:
> I just went ahead and committed fixes for these.  We're probably causing
> future trouble for ourselves if we ever want to upgrade from upstream
> asdf-install, but at least asdf-install should work on Snow Leopard now.
>
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Wade Humeniuk wrote:
>
>> I was having many problems with asdf-install.
>>
>> When I have
>>
>> (setf ccl:*default-file-character-encoding* :utf-8)
>>
>> in my ccl-init.lisp file.
>>
>> I get errors when saving the temporary download file, its created
>> with utf-8 encodings (I assume at the beginning).
>>
>> Is it legit to set my default encoding to :utf-8 in ccl-init.lisp? Or
>> should I just change it on an as needed basis?
>>
>> To fix that asdf-install issue I change the open-file-arguments
>> in tools/asdf-install/port.lisp to specify the exact format.
>>
>> (defun open-file-arguments ()
>> (append
>>  #+(or sbcl ccl)  ;;;;;;;; CHANGE HERE
>>  '(:external-format :latin1)
>>  #+:scl
>>  '(:external-format :iso-8859-1)
>>  #+(or :clisp :digitool (and :lispworks :win32))
>>  '(:element-type (unsigned-byte 8))))
>>
>> I have also changed system-namestring to (I saw that Matthew Emerson
>> changed
>> that to use ccl:native-translated-namerstring).  Removed the call to
>> truename,
>> it throws an error because a symlink file does not yet exist.
>>
>> #-:digitool
>> (defun system-namestring (pathname)
>> #+:openmcl
>> (ccl:native-translated-namestring pathname)
>> #-:openmcl
>> (namestring (truename pathname)))
>>
>> And I had to change tar handling because of snow leopard changes.  Changed
>>
>> #+:openmcl
>> (defun return-output-from-program (program args)
>> (with-output-to-string (out-stream)
>>  (let ((proc (ccl:run-program program args
>>                               :input nil
>>                               :output :stream
>>                               :wait nil)))
>>    (loop for line = (read-line
>>                        (ccl:external-process-output-stream proc) nil nil
>> nil)
>>          while line
>>          do
>>           (if (string= line "x " :end1 2 )
>>               (write-line (subseq line 2) out-stream)
>>               (write-line line out-stream))))))
>>
>> That is probably not the best place to fix tar issues (Oh well).
>>
>> I think it is working now.  Hope that helps anyone else encountering
>> problems.
>>
>> Wade
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