Re: Re: Making ASDF-Install ASDF-Installable

On 12/20/05, Edi Weitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:45:38 -0500, Gary King <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Since Lisp is a meta-circular interpreter, shouldn't ASDF-Install be
> > ASDF-Installable?! Making it so is easy, the trickier part, I think,
> > is getting implementations to use the correct version. I expect this
> > means altering how implementations interact with ASDF-Install but it
> > shouldn't be anything too tricky.
> >
> > The advantage of this is that it will be easier for people to get
> > updated versions. It would also be possible to have ASDF-Install
> > check and see if a new version is available.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I think that's something that's nice to have but actually not really
> worth the trouble.  My impression is that people use ASDF-INSTALL to
> get started but abandon it once they're familiar enough with Lisp.

Maybe some people abandon it, but I routinely use asdf-install.  As
for asdf-install'ability, however, I don't think that's important or
worth the trouble.  Of course, I primarily use sbcl, so I get
potential updates monthly.


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