Re: default-component-class slot normally gets clobbered

I think that the amount of code to be written far outweighs the  
amount of existing code and that this implies that backwards  
compatibility can be sacrificed in the name of progress. Perhaps a  
putative patch could include code to warn if any systems are found  
that rely on the old behavior...?

On Jun 15, 2006, at 1:17 AM, Richard M Kreuter wrote:

> While I don't find any uses of default-component-class by grepping
> around the .asds I have, that's not conclusive, inasmuch as people
> might have undistributed customized asds that would get broken.  I
> don't know what the attitude of asdf maintainers is about making
> changes that expose hidden bugs in extensions and defsystems.


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