> On 17 Nov 2021, at 12:26, Stelian Ionescu wrote: > >> To guarantee an old working configuration you can simply point to the >> version of the Quicklisp distribution that it was last tested with. We >> should make it easy to specify that as metadata, and it would be much >> more useful than version constraints because ASDF is not blocking >> compilation (after all, even old software might very well work with >> newer version of the dependencies). > > This would be to assume that ASDF is only used in conjunction with > Quicklisp, which is not the case.
You don't have to use the Quicklisp client to load dependencies, just to fetch them (as a package manager). And for that, I think it should be always used this way. -- Stelian Ionescu
