Faré fahree@gmail.com writes:
The short life of asdf-utils is causing me a huge headache.
asdf-utils still exists. Now it's just a thin wrapper over asdf-driver. I broke it briefly, thinking it had no clients (none showing in quicklisp); I didn't you of all people were using it, after your complaining that asdf should export utilities at all.
When ASDF exported utilities, I did not use ASDF as library of utility functions.
When the independent library asdf-utils exported utilities, I used them.
The incompatibilities introduced in ASDF are causing me a huge headache.
I've been working hard to resolve them. There's no way the old ASDF could be fixed without a complete rewrite, and that was bound to introduce some minor incompatibilities, especially in cases where clients software were exploiting unsupported interfaces or outright bugs.
The only positive practical difference I've seen between ASDF 1 and ASDF 2 is the automatic FASL segregation.
Please keep an audience like me in mind when documenting feature updates.
Zach