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<span id="Pitfalls-of-the-transition-to-ASDF-2-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">13.3.11 Pitfalls of the transition to ASDF 2</h4>
<p>The main pitfalls in upgrading to ASDF 2 seem to be related
to the output translation mechanism.
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<li> Output translations is enabled by default. This may surprise some users,
most of them in pleasant way (we hope), a few of them in an unpleasant way.
It is trivial to disable output translations.
See <a href="FAQ.html">&ldquo;How can I wholly disable the compiler output cache?&rdquo;</a>.
</li><li> Some systems in the large have been known
not to play well with output translations.
They were relatively easy to fix.
Once again, it is also easy to disable output translations,
or to override its configuration.
</li><li> The new ASDF output translations are incompatible with ASDF-Binary-Locations.
They replace A-B-L, and there is compatibility mode to emulate
your previous A-B-L configuration.
See <code>enable-asdf-binary-locations-compatibility</code> in
see <a href="Controlling-where-ASDF-saves-compiled-files.html">Backward Compatibility</a>.
But thou shalt not load ABL on top of ASDF 2.
</li></ul>
<p>Other issues include the following:
</p>
<ul>
<li> ASDF pathname designators are now specified
in places where they were unspecified,
and a few small adjustments have to be made to some non-portable defsystems.
Notably, in the <code>:pathname</code> argument
to a <code>defsystem</code> and its components,
a logical pathname (or implementation-dependent hierarchical pathname)
must now be specified with <code>#p</code> syntax
where the namestring might have previously sufficed;
moreover when evaluation is desired <code>#.</code> must be used,
where it wasn&rsquo;t necessary in the toplevel <code>:pathname</code> argument
(but necessary in other <code>:pathname</code> arguments).
</li><li> There is a slight performance bug, notably on SBCL,
when initially searching for <samp>asd</samp> files,
the implicit <code>(directory &quot;/configured/path/**/*.asd&quot;)</code>
for every configured path <code>(:tree &quot;/configured/path/&quot;)</code>
in your <code>source-registry</code> configuration can cause a slight pause.
Try to <code>(time (asdf:initialize-source-registry))</code>
to see how bad it is or isn&rsquo;t on your system.
If you insist on not having this pause,
you can avoid the pause by overriding the default source-registry configuration
and not use any deep <code>:tree</code> entry but only <code>:directory</code> entries
or shallow <code>:tree</code> entries.
Or you can fix your implementation to not be quite that slow
when recursing through directories.
<em>Update</em>: This performance bug fixed the hard way in 2.010.
</li><li> On Windows, only LispWorks supports proper default configuration pathnames
based on the Windows registry.
Other implementations make do with environment variables,
that you may have to define yourself
if you&rsquo;re using an older version of Windows.
Windows support is somewhat less tested than Unix support.
Please help report and fix bugs.
<em>Update</em>: As of ASDF 2.21, all implementations
should now use the same proper default configuration pathnames
and they should actually work, though they haven&rsquo;t all been tested.
</li><li> The mechanism by which one customizes a system so that Lisp files
may use a different extension from the default <samp>.lisp</samp> has changed.
Previously, the pathname for a component
was lazily computed when operating on a system,
and you would
<code>(defmethod source-file-type ((component cl-source-file) (system (eql (find-system 'foo))))
(declare (ignorable component system)) &quot;lis&quot;)</code>.
Now, the pathname for a component is eagerly computed when defining the system,
and instead you will <code>(defclass cl-source-file.lis (cl-source-file) ((type :initform &quot;lis&quot;)))</code>
and use <code>:default-component-class cl-source-file.lis</code>
as argument to <code>defsystem</code>,
as detailed in a see <a href="FAQ.html">How do I create a system definition where all the source files have a .cl extension?</a> below.
<code>source-file-type</code> is deprecated. To access a component&rsquo;s
file-type, use <code>file-type</code>, instead. <code>source-file-type</code> will
be removed.
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