ASDF initialize-source-registry bug?

Question

I've been banging my head against ASDF2 and just want a sanity check. When I eval (asdf:initialize-source-registry) with no arguments or with any argument, I get no value. When I check source-registry, I get an empty hash table. Is this a bug?

I'm on AllegroCL Enterprise 64-bit on Windows 7.

Answer 1

This sounds mostly correct to me. In my SBCL init file, I have:

(pushnew #p"/home/paulnath/.asdf/" asdf:*central-registry* :test #'equal)
(push #p"/home/paulnath/.asdf/" asdf:*central-registry*)

Check section 7.9 in the ASDF manual.

Checking the source of asdf.lisp, the source path ends with a (values), which of course returns no values. So I expect to not return anything.

Answer 2

Old question, but yes, that behavior is correct.

If you provide an argument to asdf::initialize-source-registry, then asdf::source-registry will (probably, you may have no .asd files...) not be empty. Also note that lisp distributions may put their own stuff into asdf::source-registry. For example, SBCL puts its internals into it.

The answer given doesn't really answer the question, as asdf::central-registry is a different (and supposedly deprecated even though it takes precedence over asdf::source-registry) mechanism.