Re: [Axiom-developer] rule for making NRLIBs

[Vanuxem Grégory]

Le samedi 07 octobre 2006 à 20:36 +0200, Waldek Hebisch a écrit : 
> Vanuxem Grégory wrote:
[...] 
> > Le samedi 07 octobre 2006 ? 16:41 +0200, Waldek Hebisch a écrit : 
> > > When you speak about "a lot of implications" do you mean that probe-file
> > > is used in many places or that it is used in may different ways?  In the
> > > first case a wrapper called axiom-probe-file would be a perfect solution.
> > 
> > I meant they are used in many places and we will need, I think, to check
> > the use of probe-file and delete-file everywhere (for example `egrep -ri
> > 'probe_?-file' src/interp/ |wc -l` returns 84  (in Gold)) .
> > 
> > Yes, I think too that a wrapper function/macro would be a good idea
> > thought I don't think it will have to be used everywhere. This leads to
> > other questions such that will we use the function directoryp, which is
> > a wrapper to a C functions defined in src/lib/cfuns-c.c.pamphlet, in
> > this wrapper? A new function has been added to the system package of
> > GCL, namely 'stat', so will we rewrite a full lisp directoryp function
> > and remove this C function from Axiom? Will this wrapper (axiom-probe|
> > delete-file) use stat or directoryp etc, etc...
> >
> 
> I think that we should use wrapper "everywhere" -- the semantics of
> probe-file looks insane on Unix-like systems (including Windows and
> Mac OSX).  ATM wrapper should use directoryp, later we can change
> it to accomodate other Lisps.  I did not look deeply into the problem,
> but what I wrote is just common sense: we want to push down and
> encapsulate system specific details.

This is exactly why I think this issue need to be discussed. Tim, Gaby
and any others can you share your point of view?

Greg