-README,v 1.35 2003/08/05 23:00:32 kevinrosenberg Exp -*- Text -*-
+$Id$ -*- 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
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
-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR
+SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR.
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
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