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11:06:44
Colleen
kpoeck: drmeister said 5 hours, 25 minutes ago: Thank you for that PR - I merged it and made a few additions of my own.
13:39:00
drmeister
Bike: it looks like poiu might be a thing. Can you pull it and run the tests in sbcl to see how it works there?
13:40:17
drmeister
I added the support for it to clasp but it doesn’t compile things and I don’t have time to debug Asdf
13:42:54
drmeister
Asdf and poiu try to load system files when it should be detecting that they aren’t there and compiling them and then loading them.
13:44:21
drmeister
This may be a bug in clasp not recognizing that they are not present or asdf uses an error signal from load to detect that the file isn’t available and we are signaling the wrong error
13:46:20
drmeister
I say that because if I continue from the error it compiles the file and then fails on a subsequent load of a file that isn’t there.
13:47:31
drmeister
I have no evidence that asdf/poiu are using fork or waitpid or alll that good stuff that would speed up and parallelize building.
13:48:51
drmeister
The example that fare provides for point testing is a complicated one that messes with readtables and it reveals another problem.
13:49:28
drmeister
Our eclector.readtables:readtablep doesn’t have a default method that returns nil.
13:52:08
drmeister
Continuing: so readtablep fails if the arg is not a readtable rather than returning nil
16:33:27
drmeister
I did a quick survey of systems that provide :depends-on information that might be good tests for poiu
16:35:13
drmeister
stassats: I'm not certain yet - I'm trying to figure that out. fare posted an update to the README.md that suggests that it does.
16:36:08
drmeister
"POIU 1.34 reportedly passed its test of building and using Exscribe with ASDF 3.3.2.5 on SBCL 1.4.4 on Linux x86-64."
16:36:18
drmeister
"Still, support for ASDF 3.3 is considered incomplete. See TODO section at the end."
16:36:45
drmeister
I'm desperate enough to try. But I haven't done the obvious thing of testing it on sbcl.
16:39:17
drmeister
There - I just tested it on sbcl and it fails in the same way that it fails on clasp.
16:40:05
drmeister
But now I've added support for clasp to poiu and vice versa and I'm more invested in getting it to work.