On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 20:47 -0400, Faré wrote: After actually using the configuration system, I came to the conclusion for the sake of simplicity, ASDF should always inherit configuration, that :inherit-configuration and :ignore-inherited-configuration should not exist, and be replaced with a function such as, for example:
asdf:initialize-source-registry-from-defaults &rest conf-sources
by default, upon initialization ASDF would call (asdf:initialize-source-registry-from-defaults :system :user :env). Users could override that in the initfiles if needed.
The reason for this is that I want users who install distro-provided packages to be able to start and use ASDF2 without having to create a local configuration file.
That's the goal indeed, and I believe it is fulfilled.
OTOH, people who don't use distro packages wouldn't care about inheriting the system configuration because they wouldn't have it, so no harm done
If searching through :tree hierarchies weren't so desperately slow, especially on SBCL, I would agree. Unhappily it *is* slow. And so until and unless performance is fixed, I think it's necessary to allow to not inherit but override the configuration. But indeed maybe an :inherit-configuration in the end should be the default when nothing is specified. [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] Il n'y a absolument rien à dire de ce qui échappe complètement aux mots. The utterly unspeakable is utterly irrelevant.