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[sbcl.git] / contrib / asdf / README

diff --git a/contrib/asdf/README b/contrib/asdf/README
index 3cb3a60..e22e6f1 100644 (file)
--- a/contrib/asdf/README
+++ b/contrib/asdf/README
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
-README,v 1.35 2003/08/05 23:00:32 kevinrosenberg Exp         -*- Text -*-
+README,v 1.38 2004/07/19 21:18:07 crhodes Exp         -*- Text -*-
+
+The canonical documentation for asdf is in the file asdf.texinfo.  
+The significant overlap between this file and that will one day be
+resolved by deleting text from this file; in the meantime, please look
+there before here.
+

 
 
 asdf: another system definition facility          
 
 
 asdf: another system definition facility          

@@ -609,15 +615,16 @@ this pathname information will not be overwritten with
 if the user loads up the .asd file into his editor and
 interactively re-evaluates that form
 
 if the user loads up the .asd file into his editor and
 interactively re-evaluates that form
 

-* Error handling
+ * Error handling

 
 It is an error to define a system incorrectly: an implementation may
 detect this and signal a generalised instance of
 
 It is an error to define a system incorrectly: an implementation may
 detect this and signal a generalised instance of

-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR
+SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR.

 
 Operations may go wrong (for example when source files contain
 errors).  These are signalled using generalised instances of
 
 Operations may go wrong (for example when source files contain
 errors).  These are signalled using generalised instances of

-OPERATION-ERROR
+OPERATION-ERROR, with condition readers ERROR-COMPONENT and
+ERROR-OPERATION for the component and operation which erred.

 
 * Compilation error and warning handling
 
 
 * Compilation error and warning handling
 

@@ -675,6 +682,11 @@ A "dry run" of an operation can be made with the following form:
 This uses unexported symbols.  What would be a nice interface for this
 functionality?
 
 This uses unexported symbols.  What would be a nice interface for this
 functionality?
 

+** patches
+
+Sometimes one wants to 
+
+

 * missing bits in implementation
 
 ** all of the above
 * missing bits in implementation
 
 ** all of the above