Re: Naive DEFSYSTEM replacement

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at tfeb dot org)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 27 Jul 2025, at 01:55, Adam Weaver (as adam at cleversure dot com dot au) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> You've invented a strawman argument so you can argue with it. 
> ASDF is "complicated" in the sense that it is thousands upon thousands
> of lines of code. Hell, even its maintainer recently said "I don't know
> what all of it is there for".


Ah, I'd assumed both that you'd read the ASDF manual and that you understood that writing robust, portable, multipurpose, extensible, backwards-compatible tools instead of fragile, non-portable, single-purpose non-extensible ones with no requirement for backwards-compatibility does tend to involve, as you say, thousands and thousands of lines of code.

Obviously at least the first assumption was incorrect.  Sorry, that was my mistake.

--tim

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