Re: Naive DEFSYSTEM replacement

Yes, I have appreciated your contributions. Indeed, I feel guilty I 
haven't figured out how to run the tests on your Genera implementation.  
Also, it would be fun to play with it again, for old times' sake if 
nothing else.

On 28 Jul 2025, at 12:19, Gary Palter wrote:

> 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.)
>>