Why would ASDF not understand "version later than 20201015"? I am perfectly fine with using the full 8 digit timestamp.
MA
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 4:24 PM Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info wrote:
On 18 Nov 2021, at 7:35, Eric Timmons wrote:
On 11/18/21 3:45 AM, Marco Antoniotti wrote:
Sorry but I am missing something.
It was said in this thread (don't remember who, apologies) that
YYYYMMDD
would work. Will it?
Yes. YYYYMMDD is currently a valid version string (assuming it's all digits). Whatever we choose will allow a superset of what's already allowed.
-Eric
That's true, but possibly stating the obvious: ASDF does not "understand" a version string like that. So you can't say "any version since October 2020 will work." Getting something like that to work would be an exercise for the extension protocol.
This actually might make a good test case for us to see if the proposed protocol (versioning method keyword initarg for defsystem) makes sense.
R