On 1 May 2011 14:11, Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info wrote:
I can see both sides of this argument. But I think Daniel is right in many ways --- ASDF is way down at the bottom of the dependency stack for the common lisp community and so the expectation of it remaining stable is pretty important.
Yes.
Probably, though, to avoid stagnation, we need to soon begin a branch that will lead us to ASDF 3.
Note: in my mind, ASDF 3 is XCVB. Which is working great, but still requires love before it correctly supports all the maintained platforms that ASDF does and provides better failure modes than dumping a backtrace on syntax errors.
We need to find someone who wishes to lead us on that journey, though, since Faré has announced his desire to move on to something different.
If you think there's long term future in the current ASDF architecture, you'll need someone else than I, indeed. If you want to give a try to XCVB, you know where to find it.
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