7 TODO list

* Outstanding spec questions, things to add

** packaging systems

*** manual page component?

** style guide for .asd files

You should either use keywords or be careful with the package that you evaluate defsystem forms in. Otherwise (defsystem partition ...) being read in the cl-user package will intern a cl-user:partition symbol, which will then collide with the partition:partition symbol.

Actually there's a hairier packages problem to think about too. in-order-to is not a keyword: if you read defsystem forms in a package that doesn't use ASDF, odd things might happen

** extending defsystem with new options

You might not want to write a whole parser, but just to add options to the existing syntax. Reinstate parse-option or something akin

** document all the error classes

** what to do with compile-file failure

Should check the primary return value from compile-file and see if that gets us any closer to a sensible error handling strategy

** foreign files

lift unix-dso stuff from db-sockets

** Diagnostics

A “dry run” of an operation can be made with the following form:

     (traverse (make-instance '<operation-name>)
               (find-system <system-name>)
               'explain)

This uses unexported symbols. What would be a nice interface for this functionality?