Faré wrote: > Dear lispers, > > with the recent release of LispWorks 7 (congratulations to the > LispWorks team!), each and every maintained CL implementation now > provides ASDF 3, and ASDF 2 can be declared officially dead. Adieu, > ASDF 2, you served your purpose, but you won't be missed. > > I propose that free software libraries (including ASDF itself) may > safely assume ASDF 3 everywhere and drop support for ASDF 2 or > earlier. > > Note: I didn't count GCL as an actively maintained CL implementation, > which is only slightly harsh. > Maintained (and ship with asdf 3): abcl ccl clasp clisp cmucl ecl mkcl > sbcl allegro lispworks > Unmaintained (but have worked at some point with asdf): gcl mcl xcl > cormanlisp genera mocl scl
I have celebrated by pushing a modification to run-tests.sh that drops upgrade testing for ASDFs <= 2. Upgrade testing has been getting more and more painful, so flushing a large number of obsolete ASDF versions no longer seen in the wild will be a big help. cheers, r