Re: Re: [Cclan-commits] CVS: asdf asdf.lisp,1.89,1.90

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:06:33 +0000, Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Oh no!
>
> I honestly don't think that this is a good idea.  (I should have
> replied about this earlier, and for that lapse I apologise.)

Yeah.  Alan asked me privately to commit this and I thought it was OK
because nobody had replied negatively.  Feel free to revert this
change.

> I claim that the use of *features* for functionality testing is
> almost always wrong, in that it does not have a fine enough
> granularity; it's usually better to test for the functionality you
> actually need.

I agree in theory.  In practise I think it's nice to have this as a
convenience feature.  One could also argue that those who agree with
your POV don't have to use these features - they don't really hurt.
With Alan's patch one has the choice to use them or not.  Without
Alan's patch one is (well, in a way) forced to see things your way.  I
vote for more choice... :)

Cheers,
Edi.


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