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Commit db35f115 authored by Francois-Rene Rideau's avatar Francois-Rene Rideau
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Documentation tweaks: explain minor incompatibilities in :pathname arguments.

Also, update compatible versions for cl-launch and common-lisp-controller.
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......@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ other ASDF add-ons offered the same functionality,
each in subtly different and incompatible ways:
ASDF-Binary-Locations, cl-launch, common-lisp-controller.
ASDF-Binary-Locations is now not needed anymore and should not be used.
cl-launch 2.900 and common-lisp-controller 7.1 have been updated
cl-launch 3.000 and common-lisp-controller 7.2 have been updated
to just delegate this functionality to ASDF.
@node Using ASDF, Defining systems with defsystem, Configuring ASDF, Top
......@@ -2104,7 +2104,7 @@ for configuration by the end-user
in an easy way with configuration files.
Recent versions of same packages use
the new @code{asdf-output-translations} API as defined below:
@code{common-lisp-controller} (7.1) and @code{cl-launch} (3.00);
@code{common-lisp-controller} (7.2) and @code{cl-launch} (3.000).
@code{ASDF-Binary-Locations} is fully superseded and not to be used anymore.
This incompatibility shouldn't inconvenience many people.
......@@ -2580,6 +2580,12 @@ Naming files within a system definition becomes easy and portable again.
@code{asdf-utilities:merge-pathnames*},
@code{asdf::merge-component-name-type}.
On the other hand, there are places where systems used to accept namestrings
where you must now use an explicit pathname object:
@code{(defsystem ... :pathname "LOGICAL-HOST:PATH;TO;SYSTEM;" ...)}
must now be written with the @code{#p} syntax:
@code{(defsystem ... :pathname #p"LOGICAL-HOST:PATH;TO;SYSTEM;" ...)}
@xref{The defsystem grammar,,Pathname specifiers}.
......@@ -2777,6 +2783,16 @@ See @code{asdf:enable-asdf-binary-locations-compatibility} in
@pxref{Controlling where ASDF saves compiled files,,Backward Compatibility}.
But thou shall not load ABL on top of ASDF 2.
@item
ASDF pathname designators are now specified in places where they were unspecified,
and a few small adjustments have to be made to some non-portable defsystems.
Notably, in the @code{:pathname} argument to a @code{defsystem} and its components,
a logical pathname (or implementation-dependent hierarchical pathname)
must now be specified with @code{#p} syntax
where the namestring might have previously sufficed;
moreover when evaluation is desired @code{#.} must be used,
where it wasn't necessary in the toplevel @code{:pathname} argument.
@end itemize
Other issues include the following:
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