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Commit afa14d6b authored by Francois-Rene Rideau's avatar Francois-Rene Rideau
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......@@ -1494,7 +1494,7 @@ The new component type is used in a @code{defsystem} form in this way:
Configurations specify paths where to find system files.
1- An application may explicitly initialize the source-registry
configuration using the `Configuration API`_ below,
configuration using the @xref{Configuration API} below,
in which case this takes precedence.
It may itself compute this configuration from the command-line,
from a script, from its own configuration file, etc.
......@@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@ Configurations specify paths where to find system files.
7- The source registry will be configured from a default configuration,
which allows for implementation-specific software to be searched.
(See below `Backward Compatibility`_).
(See below @xref{Backward Compatibility}).
Each of these configuration is specified as a SEXP
in a trival domain-specific language (defined below).
......@@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ DIRECTIVE :=
PATTERN := a string without wildcards, that will be matched exactly
against the name of a any subdirectory in the directory component
of a path. e.g. ``_darcs'' will match #p"/foo/bar/_darcs/src/bar.asd"
of a path. e.g. @code{"_darcs"} will match @file{#p"/foo/bar/_darcs/src/bar.asd"}
@end example
......@@ -1597,7 +1597,7 @@ PATTERN := a string without wildcards, that will be matched exactly
Configuration directories consist in files each contains
a list of directives without any enclosing @code{(:source-registry ...)} form.
The files will be sorted by namestring as if by #'string< and
The files will be sorted by namestring as if by @code{#'string<} and
the lists of directives of these files with be concatenated in order.
An implicit @code{:inherit-configuration} will be included
at the end of the list.
......@@ -1606,6 +1606,12 @@ This allows for packaging software that has file granularity
(e.g. Debian's @code{dpkg} or some future version of @code{clbuild})
to easily include configuration information about distributed software.
The convention is that, for sorting purposes,
the names of files in such a directory begin with two digits
that determine the order in which these entries will be read.
Also, the type of these files is conventionally @code{"conf"}
and as a limitation of some implementations, the type cannot be @code{NIL}.
Directories may be included by specifying a directory pathname
or namestring in an @code{:include} directive, e.g.::
(:include "/foo/bar/")
......@@ -2020,6 +2026,12 @@ This allows for packaging software that has file granularity
(e.g. Debian's @command{dpkg} or some future version of @command{clbuild})
to easily include configuration information about software being distributed.
The convention is that, for sorting purposes,
the names of files in such a directory begin with two digits
that determine the order in which these entries will be read.
Also, the type of these files is conventionally @code{"conf"}
and as a limitation of some implementations, the type cannot be @code{NIL}.
Directories may be included by specifying a directory pathname
or namestring in an @code{:include} directive, e.g.:
@verbatim
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