CFFI govels size_t into :sizet

[Robert P. Goldman]

On 3/3/16 Mar 3 -10:28 AM, Luís Oliveira wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
>> I fear that will not do what you want:
>>
>>> (asdf:version-satisfies "3.1.2.rc" "3.1.2")
>> NIL
>>
>> The RC there for some reason is breaking the match:
>>
>> R> (asdf:version-satisfies "3.1.2" "3.1.2")
>> T
>>
>> This smells to me like a bug in ASDF:VERSION-SATISFIES, but we won't be
>> able to get a fix into ASDF in time to let this work for QL + CFFI.
> 
> Using "999" or something like that might be distinguishing enough that
> we don't need a suffix. Allowing suffixes of some sort sounds useful,
> but we don't need it.
> 
> (Meanwhile, I've read your other replies.)
> 
> (defmethod asdf:version-satisfies ((c (eql (asdf:find-system :cffi)))
>                                    version)
>   (declare (ignore version))
>   (or (null (asdf:component-version c))
>       (call-next-method)))
> 
> How unwise is this? :-)

Actually, that sounds entirely reasonable.  I'm not sure the IGNORE will
work everywhere: you might change it to IGNORABLE.  And add a comment! ;-)

>> Is there some reason you can't just bump x.y.z to x.y.z.xx :version in
>> your cffi.asd file and push that?
> 
> I don't like committing version bumps, so CFFI's current setup creates
> a tag and sets the system version on the release tarball only.
>