Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
Robert Goldman writes:
Similarly, I would prefer to have ASDF not fall into the SLIME trap. SLIME configuration seems to involve mastering an ever-changing number of contribs to get the features you really want....
Slime is not a good example of a contrib system for various reasons. Though it depends on what you see in a contrib system: I think it's an axis between not-officially-maintained addon code base and plugin architecture. Slime is very far on the left side. I suggest trying to get to the right side because it means that you really have to try to get layers right.
Right. And what's appropriate for SLIME is not appropriate here. ASDF is baked deeply into many systems, so it has to be more conservative, and for it to serve its function it should work with as little configuration as possible (something not generally true of emacs ;-) ).
best, r