2009/8/19 Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciaripoll@googlemail.com:
First the question. What is the level of integration of ASDF with different implementations? Does ASDF support all lisp implementations equally? Does SBCL (and perhaps other) ship the latest versions of ASDF?
(Sorry for the late answer.) SBCL ships with a periodically updated upstream ASDF.
That is, it might not be the latest bleeding-edge one for each release, but the intention is that the one SBCL comes with contains no modifications. Historically this has not always been true, I think, but it has been the intention.
If cleaning ASDF of the SBCL-contrib-releated stuff is done, then possibly this will change -- but even in that case we would prefer to keep the changes minimal.
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus