[PATCH consfigurator v3] DATA.ASDF:SYSTEM-VERSION-FILES support systems with version files

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Thu 06 Oct 2022 at 09:10PM +02, Russell Sim wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Seems this problem is more pervasive than I previously thought, while
> trying to use the ten library[1] to do templating for configuration
> files. I found they are using reader macros to load the readme as a long
> description.
>
> Example:
>
>   :long-description
>   #.(uiop:read-file-string
>      (uiop:subpathname *load-pathname* "README.md"))
>
> So even thought this patch fixes projects whose version is stored in
> files, it seems that potentially anything could be in any arbitrary
> file.

Yup, that's Lisp for you.

> What do you think the best way to deal with this issue is?  I was
> thinking it might make more sense to instead just tar the entire
> system directory rather than being picky about which files are taken?

How about including any text file?  Then we avoid accidentally uploading
huge screenshots etc.

-- 
Sean Whitton