> I have just installed Clozure 1.8, and the ASDF version that comes bundled 
> with it (2.20) breaks my setup for ASDF systems using logical pathnames. That 
> happens all the time (with recent new versions of LispWorks or SBCL, for 
> example), and it is very annoying to keep track of which version of ASDF 
> works and which doesn't.
>
What bugs are you experiencing?
Can you show us your setup?
It would help if we had test cases against which to test our support
for logical-pathnames.
Last major change was in 2.016.2.

> I am now considering changing my setup away from logical pathnames, in the 
> hope that I don't have to worry that much about ASDF anymore. However, this 
> means that I can't use a portable setup anymore, so I am trying to figure out 
> to what extent this is still important. That's what the paragraph above is 
> about. (Sorry for cross-posting, but I think it's important to see this in 
> context.)
>
Unhappily, portable pathnames are anything but.

You can do things more portably without logical pathnames,
e.g. with asdf:system-relative-pathname.

—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org

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