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Pascal J. Bourguignon
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Francois-Rene Rideau
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Add note about downcasing of symbols used as system names,
from Dan Barlow's recent email citing his original README.
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@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ If it returns the keyword @code{:OLD},
then you're using an old version of ASDF (from before 1.635).
If it returns @code
{
NIL
}
then ASDF is not installed.
If you are running a version older than 2.00
4
,
If you are running a version older than 2.00
8
,
we recommend that you load a newer ASDF using the method below.
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@@ -569,6 +569,19 @@ If your ASDF is too old to provide @code{asdf:load-system} though
we recommend that you upgrade to ASDF 2.
@xref
{
Loading ASDF,,Loading an otherwise installed ASDF
}
.
Note the name of a system is specified as a string or a symbol,
typically a keyword.
If a symbol (including a keyword), its name is taken and lowercased.
The name must be a suitable value for the @code
{
:name
}
initarg
to @code
{
make-pathname
}
in whatever filesystem the system is to be found.
The lower-casing-symbols behaviour is unconventional,
but was selected after some consideration.
Observations suggest that the type of systems we want to support
either have lowercase as customary case (unix, mac, windows)
or silently convert lowercase to uppercase (lpns),
so this makes more sense than attempting to use @code
{
:case :common
}
,
which is reported not to work on some implementations
@section Other Operations
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