On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Helmut Eller eller.helmut@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 08 2014, Faré wrote:
As I said in a another message, I had experiences like this:
- (asdf:load-system foo),
- then had some load-time problem,
- cleaned out the cache,
- and magically (asdf:load-system foo) worked.
Are these experiences recent?
Maybe not. But I still clean the cache whenever there's the slightest suspicion that ASDF could be related to a problem. I'm sure you can fix bugs once identified, but fixing trust is another issue.
Actually, before ASDF2 (mid 2010), no one could "fix bugs once identified": there was no single person in charge, no way to push bug fixes, a lot of bugs, and a good reason not to trust ASDF. But the situation changed completely 3-4 years ago when I took over, made asdf upgradable so that bug fixes could be pushed, and started fixing the bugs and pushing the fixes. ASDF is a completely different beast these days, and well tested thanks to Robert Goldman, Anton Vodonosov, Dave Cooper and more. If your bad experiences were with versions of ASDF older than that, I invite you to reconsider this trust issue.
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