Re: new homepage and mailing lists for asdf?

I'm all in favor!

On Oct 17, 2006, at 6:25 AM, Marco Baringer wrote:

>
> hi,
>
>   in the interest of faciliting further development of asdf and its
>   extensions I have recently created an asdf project on cl.net.
>
>   http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf
>
>   The advantages to hosting asdf on cl.net as opposed to sourceforge
>   are, imho:
>
>   1) there is a project named asdf with it's own home page and mailing
>      lists. newbies often have a hard time figuring out where the asdf
>      documentation is located and having asdf hosted inside cclan is
>      confusing, especially when you consider that asdf is by far and
>      away better known and more used than cclan itself.
>
>   2) cl.net is already home to many lisp projects.
>
>   3) cl.net's mailing list archives as far easier to use than
>      sourceforge.
>
>   4) we can provide a single download locations for asdf extensions
>      (asdf-binary-locations, build-asdf-package, etc.) in a way which,
>      for whatever reason, isn't currently done.
>
>   I want to make it clear that I am _not_ attempting to fork asdf nor
>   am I auto-proclaiming myself an asdf maintainer. I just feel that,
>   given asdf's central role in common-lisp development, it deserves
>   its own (non-cliki) home page and mailing lists. I have not created
>   a repo for asdf on cl.net and won't do that unless asked to by
>   asdf's current maintainers. (btw who maintains asdf?)
>
>   This new project has not yet been announced (i haven't edited the
>   cliki page or posted to any mailing lists other than this one).
>
> thanks,
> --  
> -Marco
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