>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Luís Oliveira <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what can go wrong if one CL:LOADs an .asd file, but if
>>> things can go wrong, a warning seems sensible, maybe even an error.

> "Faré" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Well, first, it might be loaded from the wrong package.
>> ASDF 1&2 loads from a temporary package that uses CL and ASDF.
>> ASDF 3 loads from ASDF-USER, that uses CL, ASDF, and most of POIU
>> (not all of it, for backward-compatibility reasons, until SBCL has
>> stopped using SB-EXT in SB-GROVEL at the same time as).
>>

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:21 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I didn't understand this. So are we likely to encounter problems with old
> systems making their own packages that use only ASDF and CL?
>
> Presumably not, unless symbols moved from ASDF to POIU, but thought I would
> check.
>
Well, you'd have to do a run with cl-test-grid to be sure that works,
but yes, it might be nice if ASDF-USER were to use all of POIU instead of
just asdf/common-lisp and asdf/package.

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