22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
2:55 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:54, Pascal Costanza <pc@p-cos.net> wrote:
Why is it that ASDF requires restarting lisp in a pristine state?
Mostly historical reasons. Its test suite predates most test-suite software. No one has rewritten it to use anything else. I would gladly accept a patch that replaces that with, say, fiveam or stefil. Proper use of clear-system and delete-package can help. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org Bragg's principle: Everything in the future is a wave, everything in the past is a particle.