On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 22:30 -0600, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > How would you all feel about an alternate default location for lisp > systems, in addition to > > ~/.local/share/common-lisp/source/ > > I'm sure that .local was chosen out of the (in)finite wisdom of XDG, but > it just seems odd to me to hide the lisp systems from the user, which we > are doing by putting them in a location that requires ls -a. > > After all, these are systems, not configuration files. > > What about ~/asdf-systems which doesn't make the poor user play peekaboo? > > I came across this while editing the manual. I don't use this directory > myself; maybe everyone loves it. Or maybe no one uses the standard > default, and I shouldn't care.
I would ask you not to add any more hard-coded directories to ASDF, and remove the already existing ones. If what you want is making life easy for newcomers, make an additional tool that initializes a work environment with convenient values, but separate the configuration of ASDF from the core. The only reason why ~/.local/share/common-lisp/source/ hasn't caused complaints is because nobody was already using it. In my case, ~/lisp has large numbers of duplicate .asd files and other systems I don't want to expose so a :tree recursion there would be very annoying. And please don't tell me to :ignore-inherited-configuration, for what's the point of the default configuration if so many people either don't use it or have to explicitly ignore it ? -- Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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