On 4/26/17 Apr 26 -7:46 PM, Faré wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgold...@sift.net> wrote: >> On 4/26/17 Apr 26 -6:33 AM, Faré wrote: >>> What more, it was a hurdle on >>> the road to making a future ASDF a robust system with deterministic >>> builds. >> I wanted to ask about this. Right now ASDF systems are (in general) >> partially ordered. Is it your plan to make sure there are no >> implementation or state dependencies in how these partial orders are >> linearized, in order to make it deterministic? >> > Well, a really deterministic variant of ASDF, if it ever happens, > would be based on cross-compilation in separate processes, similar to > how Lisp builds currently happen with Bazel. Handling self-extension > and phase separation properly in this context might be "interesting". >
OK, but I think that should be a different thing -- perhaps POIU version 2, rather than an ASDF version. It's ok to adapt ASDF to support programming in the large, but not, I think, too much at the expense of conventional, smaller projects. At some point, probably the tool support for very large and smaller, more conventional systems, should diverge.
