cl-colors2 usage breaking a number of projects?

[pnathan]

Referencing PR #8 and @xach 's comment d9b1ea3#r36624741

@guicho271828 - FYI.

[pnathan]

@xach - I don't maintain cl-colors2. What is the specific problem cl-ansi-text introduced - do you have a test run you could link?

[xach]

It's nothing directly to do with cl-ansi-text. The real problem is that cl-colors2's package name conflicts with the existing cl-colors, and some common dependency graphs now include both cl-colors and cl-colors2. For example, a number of projects' test systems depend on prove, and the projects also use the original cl-colors. When the system is loaded, both cl-colors and cl-colors2 load, causing a conflict.

Prove's dependence on cl-colors2 comes via cl-ansi-text.

I've proposed to cl-colors2 that it rename its package and the systems that require it be updated to use the new name. We'll see how that goes!

[pnathan]

@xach how much pain is this causing the broader ecosystem right now? If it's sufficiently painful, I can back out the cl-color2 change provisionally, and then we can restart work from there.

[xach]

Moderate pain. Some test systems are broken. It's early in the release cycle. I think it's better to fix the root cause in cl-colors2 at the moment. Time may change my priorities...

[pnathan]

OK. Looks like Cage has worked on addressing it - - https://notabug.org/cage/cl-colors2/issues/1

give me a heads up if you need me to apply a change. I have no desire to cause pain to ripple out.

[pnathan]

I should also note that Prove is apparently somewhat deprecated in favor of Rove - https://github.com/fukamachi/rove

[xach]

Ok, cl-colors2 now has the package cl-colors2 and not cl-colors. Could you update the usage of cl-colors2 accordingly?

[pnathan]

@xach - sure thing.

[xach]

The branch fixes everything for me.

[xach]

Oh, and it would be great if it was merged to master.

[pnathan]

@xach - just to confirm - you mean the PR at #11 ? FWIW it doesn't work out of the gate in the CI system, since cl-color2's CL-COLORS2 package rename hasn't been pushed to the latest Quicklisp.

Do you plan to release both at the same time? If so, I'll happily merge to master.

[xach]

I'll release both at the same time.

[pnathan]

@xach - you're good to go on my end. Please advise if further issues arise!

[guicho271828]

thank you @pnathan for cleaning this up --- I could not predict these issues and I feel sorry. thank you for your work @xach too.