[asdf-devel] asdf and quicklisp

[Faré]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:
> Faré <fahree at gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> Quicklisp is geared towards providing libraries ("systems"), and I see
>>> ASDF is an application for loading systems, not a library.
>>>
>> Yes, but some libraries require recent versions of ASDF
>> to use recent features
>
> I think this is primarily, though not exclusively, your libraries, and
> primarily, though not exclusively, because you are the controller of
> ASDF.
>
Yes, I am the first one to rely on the new features:
I know it's there, I know it needs to be tested in a real example,
and I know it needs to be show-cased before it takes on.
If I don't use it, it may end up being actually unusable,
like :defsystem-depends-on which was proposed early on for asdf 2,
added in 2.010, but only actually working and useful in 2.016
when I started using it.

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