Is Quicklisp out of date?
Jeff Cunningham <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:27:17 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.lisp.steel-bank.general |
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| Message-ID | <20260224082717.75755f90@Isabelle> |
I was told recently that my version of Quicklisp is very out of date, and that because it was so out of date, it isn't loading the latest version of UIOP which is causing problems. The claim is that Quicklisp has been "frozen" for the last five years and isn't being maintained. As best I can tell, Quicklisp - direct from the site - is 2021 or so, all though most packages loaded with it are later. ASDF (and hence UIOP) is 3.3.1 loaded through Quicklisp, where as at github it's 3.3.6.1 or something. So, Quicklisp seems to be ignoring updates to ASDF since 3.3.1. It was further claimed that most people are now using better package managment systems with Lisp now. Roswell was mentioned. This is all news to me. Is there anything to it? Are you using Quicklisp or something else? Regards, -- Jeff Cunningham