/usr/share/common-lisp/systems/ not in asdf:*central-registry*

[Desmond O. Chang]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Luca Capello <luca at pca.it> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:42:07 +0200, Peter Van Eynde wrote:
>> Tamas Papp wrote:
>>> I thought I would write before filing a bug report.  Apparently
>>> /usr/share/common-lisp/systems/ is not in asdf:*central-registry* any
>>> more by default.  Of course adding it manually fixes this, but it used
>>> to be there -- is this change intentional?  I don't know whether it
>>> was added by sbcl or common-lisp-controller.
>>
>> This was by design. In the changelog:
>>
>>>   * Make clc only active in clc calls. This should increase the
>>>     compatibility with clbuild and friends
>>
>> Using (clc:clc-require <foo>) should still work.
>
> I still consider this a regression, since previous behavior is horribly
> broken, also with respect upstream "assumptions", e.g. StumpWM manual
> creation:

Agreed. I think /usr/share/common-lisp/systems should be considered as
the default location of asdf:*central-registry* in debian. Some upstreams
need asdf to load libraries, and so does slime's load-system command.

>
>  http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-common-lisp/stumpwm.git;a=commitdiff;h=753da55eed1f889894eb3c9a3f4c14668c034ece
>
> BTW, IMHO this change would have required a major release bump.
>
> However, given that power is in the hands who does the work, I will not
> complain further and instead accept it as it is.
>
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca
>
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