On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Zach Beane xach@xach.com wrote:
Faré fahree@gmail.com writes:
Quicklisp is geared towards providing libraries ("systems"), and I see ASDF is an application for loading systems, not a library.
Yes, but some libraries require recent versions of ASDF to use recent features
I think this is primarily, though not exclusively, your libraries, and primarily, though not exclusively, because you are the controller of ASDF.
Yes, I am the first one to rely on the new features: I know it's there, I know it needs to be tested in a real example, and I know it needs to be show-cased before it takes on. If I don't use it, it may end up being actually unusable, like :defsystem-depends-on which was proposed early on for asdf 2, added in 2.010, but only actually working and useful in 2.016 when I started using it.
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