Evaluating Medley compatibility with Practical Common Lisp code: Chapter 15

[pamoroso]

15. Practical: A Portable Pathname Library

This is a continuation of the work on issue #609. To evaluate the compatibility of Medley Common Lisp with ANSI Common Lisp I'm testing on Medley the code of the book Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel.

Chapter 15 describes the implementation of a portable pathname library. Since the code is written for and relies on specific features of modern Common Lisp systems, a complete reimplementation or a major adapation would be necessary for running it on Medley. So for the time being I'm skipping this chapter.

[masinter]

What does PCL say about packages that Medley doesn't implement?
a PATHNAME issue would be useful.

[pamoroso]

So far I completed chapter 15 of the book and packages are covered in chapter 21, so I don't know yet whether there are any major package issues.

I opened issue #1598 for reporting the missing pathnames features.