On 1 May 2011 14:11, Robert Goldman <[email protected]> wrote: > I can see both sides of this argument. But I think Daniel is right in > many ways --- ASDF is way down at the bottom of the dependency stack for > the common lisp community and so the expectation of it remaining stable > is pretty important. > Yes.
> Probably, though, to avoid stagnation, we need to soon begin a branch > that will lead us to ASDF 3. > Note: in my mind, ASDF 3 is XCVB. Which is working great, but still requires love before it correctly supports all the maintained platforms that ASDF does and provides better failure modes than dumping a backtrace on syntax errors. > We need to find someone who wishes to lead us on that journey, though, > since Faré has announced his desire to move on to something different. > If you think there's long term future in the current ASDF architecture, you'll need someone else than I, indeed. If you want to give a try to XCVB, you know where to find it. [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer, then you find there is nothing in it. _______________________________________________ asdf-devel mailing list [email protected] http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asdf-devel
