On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Faré wrote:
1- I think we should proceed and add a default path anyway. ~/cl/ and/or ~/common-lisp/ sound fine to me, and I've seen no one complain about that. You could make it ~/local/common-lisp/ if you're into larger paths.
The computer I'm currently on uses ~/lisp for a lot of non-ASDF-related systems, including numerous files that are not source code. On some other systems, I use paths like ~/cl to distinguish from ~/racket and other dialects.
I agree with others who dislike this idea. ASDF will inflict significant end-user pain for little benefit if it chooses to do a land grab on an obvious directory name.
In my opinion, a lot of the complexity in ASDF, and a lot the motivation for this proposal, stems from ASDF's conflation of the "loader" with the "build system". That's the topic for another post...
- Daniel