Commit 5e44805d authored by Francois-Rene Rideau's avatar Francois-Rene Rideau
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Update TODO

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    but possibly also triggered by the non-standard declaim.
*** `#5(1 ,@`(2 3)))` returns #(1 2 3),
     rather than #(1 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3) or even better #(1 2 3 3 3).
*** It purports to support Unicode, but it has only 16-bit characters.
   Note that (subtypep 'character 'base-char) says T -- everything is a base char(!)

** SCL has bugs:
*** it doesn't like run-program from a modified directory?
@@ -164,12 +166,12 @@
   /etc/common-lisp/asdf-output-translations.conf.d/01-common-lisp-controller.conf
*** Tests that try to catch an error fail (but catching a warning succeeds),
   which suggests brokenness in handler-bind and/or error.
*** COMPILE-FILE* fails due to handler-bind error in
   with-muffled-compiler-conditions or so.
*** `#5(1 ,@`(2 3)))` returns #(1 2 3),
     rather than #(1 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3) or even better #(1 2 3 3 3).
*** (DIRECTORY #p"*.*") fails to match files with pathname type NIL.
*** GCL doesn't properly process files the name of which contains a *
*** Low-level compiler bug:
   ./cl-launch.sh -B redo_test sh gcl exec noupdate noinc file system noinit

** ABCL has a few bugs.
*** ABCL fails the timestamp propagation test.
@@ -179,10 +181,11 @@

** ECL has issues with its bundles.
   On MacOS X, test-bundle.script fails.
   On Linux, test-program.script fails with recent ECL 237af2e,
   but used to work quite fine earlier in 2013.
*** ECL doesn't properly process files the name of which contains a *

** Allegro fails to parse argv the correct Windows way wrt C++ escaping conventions.
   Is this (still) the case? What about LispWorks? Other implementations?

* Design & Implement some out-of-line configuration mechanism for various options?
  i.e. let configuration files override some variables around some actions.
** Could be used to override new backward-incompatible defaults
@@ -233,7 +236,7 @@
* Include some ABL test for stassats's (now obsolete?) thing:
   (asdf:enable-asdf-binary-locations-compatibility
   :centralize-lisp-binaries t :default-toplevel-directory *fasl-dir*)
** Or deprecate and remove ABL compatibility altogether?
** Or deprecate and remove ABL compatibility altogether? Move it to contrib?
   No one has been using ASDF1 for years.
   There is no ABL to be compatible with —
   is anyone still using the compatibility mode?