>>> Feel free to adopt this technique for your proposed website slot, so it >>> does not cause compatibility problems. Please do not remove other >>> techniques. >>> >> There is no compatibility problem whatsoever with adding optional slots. > > I just tried, and got this: > > Error while trying to load definition for system wwwoops from > pathname /home/xach/src/lisp/wwwoops/wwwoops.asd: > Invalid initialization argument: > :WEBSITE > in call for class #<STANDARD-CLASS ASDF:SYSTEM>. > [Condition of type ASDF:LOAD-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR] > > There *is* a compatibility problem. > I haven't added the slots yet, so of course it won't work. As for disabling properties on old versions of ASDF that don't actually support them, that's what #+asdf3 is for, just like #+asdf2 before it. Hopefully, two years from now we can assume everyone has moved from ASDF2 to ASDF3, just like today we can safely assume no one uses ASDF1 anymore.
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