Re: Naive DEFSYSTEM replacement
"Rainer Joswig (as joswig at lisp dot de)" <[email protected]>
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Gary, many thanks for your work! :-) > Am 28.07.2025 um 19:19 schrieb Gary Palter (as gmpalter at fastmail dot com) <[email protected]>: > > I try to update the ASDF included with Genera in a timely manner. I also do the same for CCL. > > - Gary > > >> On Jul 28, 2025, at 12:52 PM, Robert Goldman (as rpgoldman at sift dot net) <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 28 Jul 2025, at 11:43, Tim Bradshaw wrote: >> >> And the 'nobody knows what it all does' thing. If you as a maintainer remove or incompatibly change anything then you lose if anyone out there relies on it, when you generally have no idea at all who is out there. So you’ve gotta ask yourself one question: 'do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk? >> >> I've already found that both the SBCL and Quicklisp maintainers flat out refuse to update the versions of ASDF that they bundle. So no bug fixes because they prefer predictability. >> >> (And even though no one's asking: yes, this attitude does degrade my morale and mean that ASDF gets less attention than it probably should.) >> >