Is Quicklisp out of date?

Jeff Cunningham <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:27:17 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.steel-bank.general
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I was told recently that my version of Quicklisp is very out of date, and that because it was so
out of date, it isn't loading the latest version of UIOP which is causing problems.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