X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=contrib%2Fasdf%2FREADME;h=e22e6f17f8d17485bfa17e2eb73efcb0a411129c;hb=aa8c8cd473f1d487fa2c1a7490c78a59b9955bbe;hp=3cb3a60f45773b41cc1f96c38867f2112befc626;hpb=1e9a538c32223df9132c1e7fb2b67a2129c40a8d;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/contrib/asdf/README b/contrib/asdf/README index 3cb3a60..e22e6f1 100644 --- 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 @@ -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 -* 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 @@ -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? +** patches + +Sometimes one wants to + + * missing bits in implementation ** all of the above