[Gbbopen-developer] portable-threads

[Dan Corkill]

>       i tried an approach that may be the best of all worlds: i've
> tried to add the/a portable-threads.asd to the toplevel dir of the
> gbbopen repo.

I made a few changes to your portable-threads.asd and committed it to
the GBBopen SVN.  (I hope you don't mind the changes.)

The current gbbopen.asd is a hack that needs revisiting in terms of
better co-existence of ASDF and the mini-module facility.

> the attached .asd file when put in the gbbopen repo works for the
> following commands:
> 
> (asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :portable-threads)
> (asdf:operate 'asdf:test-op :portable-threads)
> 
> but only as long as the gbbopen system was not load-op'ed yet. this is
> not ideal but probably good enough for many lispers who would like to
> use the p-t lib and don't want to lag behind (i personally prefer to
> use the HEAD of all the code i depend on).


>> The on-line & PDF documentation for Portable Threads is not separated
>> from GBBopen (and doing so would limit the cross referencing with other
>> parts of GBBopen), but we hope that having it as a separate section in a
>> larger reference is not a major issue.
> 
> yep, i wasn't considering all these... now i think a standalone repo
> would be more work then it's worth.

Actually, I took a second look at the reference-manual generation
mechanisms, and it would not be too difficult to generate stand-alone
Portable Threads documentation (PDF and on-line).  I'll look into doing
that soon.

-- Dan

Heads up to all: We are soon to release Portable Threads v2.2.1, which
removes the backward-support for the v1.0 entities...



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