Re: aside from the pangs of history, what about moving ASDF to common-lisp.net

Robert Goldman <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:25:27 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gary King wrote:
>> Since you're the one asking, can you provide your own Pro/Con analysis
>> -- even if your Con half says just "None that I can see."? :)
> 
> That's a fair point!
> 
> Prose to moving
> 
> * more Lispy / visible to the CL community
> * more control over the hosting environment / easier to use than SF  
> (ssh access, etc).
> 
> Poetry / cons-cells
> 
> * less putative features "out of the box" (though I'm not sure that  
> any of the features SF provides are ones that matter because I'm not  
> very SF savvy).
> * It's a change and change can lead to discontinuities

Another potential downside to migration:  Sourceforge is likely to be
more robust than common-lisp.net, just because they're so much bigger, yes?

Best,
r

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