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Daniel, if you want changes only every 5 to 10 years, do like janderson: try an upgrade every 5 years, find that it breaks your code somehow and downgrade back to the old version without further investigation. Then maybe 10 years from now you'll get the system dependency bug fixed.

if one wishes to ascribe expectations to my actions, allow me to correct the presumption, as more accurate would be the hope, in ten years to have the luxury to work with a build system which leaves my dependency descriptions alone and uses them to do what it should, without failing for unrelated reasons.

Well, after 5 to 10 years, some amount of bitrot is to be expected, especially for software that wasn't abandoned but saw active development.

It is very unfair of you to complain without ever submitting a bug report: we get no chance to defend ourselves. Did we do something stupid? Did you? Was the issue a known backward incompatibility? Was there a trivial fix, whether already documented or not yet? We'll never know.

—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org You can of course keep using any old ASDF 1 you like, or whichever or even MK-DEFSYSTEM, which is quite stable. Only if you ever want to use recent libraries that depend on new ASDF features or bug fixes, will you have to upgrade your ASDF.