I'm fine with having 3.1.7.26 (already added to ECL), so go ahead keeping the changes.
Good.
What I want to say that its somewhat confusing to agree on something and having François do the opposite out of the blue (and seeing nothing wrong with that). But I suppose it's ASDF developers concern, not mine.
I acted after discussing with Robert.
What concern whatsoever do you have for ASDF internals?
If your actual concern is that you want make-build to be provided by ASDF itself rather than by some ECL extension, that is possible. We could have a version of the function in backward-interface (no less "working" than the previous bogus function), and just have it print a warning that it is deprecated when called. You will still have to migrate off of it before it gets removed, but then user code if any will keep running a bit longer before you migrate.
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