Re: Re: Making ASDF-Install ASDF-Installable

Tim Daly Jr. writes:
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 10:25 +0100, Edi Weitz wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> FWIW, I'm reasonably familiar with Lisp, yet I use ASDF-INSTALL all the
> time.  It's the quickest way to grab the latest version of a package and
> its dependencies.  I also think that it makes people more likely to
> release multiple small libraries, as well as to depend on libraries
> without incorporating them.  
> 
> TBNL, for example, depended on 6 other packages last time I checked.
> Who wants to manually download, unpack, symlink, and gpg-key-check 7
> packages every time he sets up a webserver?
> 
> Making ASDF-INSTALL ASDF-INSTALL-able is a neat idea, but a better goal,
> IMHO, is to get one right version of it that never changes.  It's
> infrastructure.  I don't upgrade ls, cp, mv, etc., and I don't want to
> have to upgrade ASDF-INSTALL.

It's not because it's upgradable that you have to upgrade it.
But it's nice for installers to be self-upgradable.
fink, and gentoo do this for example, and it works well and nice.

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