[Larceny-users] on porting to larceny

[Felix Klock]

On Dec 27, 2008, at 4:04 PM, David Rush wrote:

> 2008/12/27 William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu>:
>> Marco Moggi wrote:
>>> I cannot use COMPILE-STALE-LIBRARIES because
>>> when  there are the following files in the same
>>> directory:
>>>
>>> compat.ikarus.sls
>>> compat.larceny.sls
>>> compat.ypsilon.sls
>>>
>>> Larceny attempts to compile all of them, not only
>>> the "larceny.sls" one.
>>
>> That has been logged as a requested enhancement
>> (ticket #602).
>
> I should probably add this to the ticket, but it's unclear to me how
> to define this feature in a way that doesn't (pardon my failing
> imagination) suck. Compatibility in general is a N^2 problem; you need
> to define the "from" system and the "to" system in order to completely
> specify which compatibility module you want in the most general case.

I thought this too.  But then I read the text of ticket #602; I  
thought Will's proposal there made sense.

Are you saying that the Will proposal on #602 also falls victim to the  
Compatibility-N^2 problem?  (I don't see how.)

-Felix