Re: [Gcl-devel] On the package tests

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Just committed some changes regarding gensym, complement,
constantly, and symbol importing.  Current failures:

113 out of 4246

More work is needed on the symbols.

Verified maxima build is not broken.

Take care,


Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:

> Greetings!  OK I've just committed some changes.  I'm now down to 172
> out of 4148 failures.  
> 
> I think the biggest item that remains with the package stuff is the
> error handling.  For example, when I read the spec for delete-name, it
> appeared to state that a continuable package-error should be triggered
> if the package is used by others or does not exist.  When I
> implemented this, I caused several additional test failures.  Also, I
> can't find where the function package-error is defined in the spec
> either.
> 
> I'm hoping that the field is small enough
> now that you might be able to shed some additional light as to how the
> remaining failures should work.  
> 
> Remaining cleanups include implementing package documentation strings,
> and to check the .lsp code for instances of in-package which need to
> be changed.  This latter was perhaps the most significant of the
> modifications -- the old gcl implementation of in-package would call
> make-package if the designator did not exist.  Many of the init
> scripts relied on this to setup their packages.  I've replaced the
> relevant instances in init_gcl.lsp.in and pcl/sys-package.lisp.
> 
> Lastly, I've discovered that our compiler variable setup was turning
> on optimization at all times regardless of the *speed* setting.  I've
> added the additional configure variables O3FLAGS and O2FLAGS to allow
> setting these at compile time.  I didn't modify the Windows section in
> cmpmain.lsp to use the new variables, so if the Windows maintainers
> would like to try this out, please do.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> "Paul F. Dietz" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Comments on the tests:
> > 
> > (1) Many package functions take package designators as an argument.
> >    A package designator can be a package object or a string designator.
> >    A string designator can be a string, a character, or a symbol
> >    (or other things on which the function STRING does not fail.)
> >    Many tests are failing because string designators are not handled,
> >    or not handled fully.
> > 
> > (2) gcl doesn't implement the DELETE-PACKAGE function, even in ansi
> >    mode.  Many tests set up packages, do something, then clean up
> >    after themselves with DELETE-PACKAGE.  They're all failing now.
> > 
> > I found one test (FIND-SYMBOL.8) that was busted; it's been fixed.
> > 
> >     Paul
> > 
> > 
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