On 17 Nov 2021, at 12:32, Stelian Ionescu wrote:
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.
That only works if you are using the QL libraries unchanged. If you need
to patch or extend them, you need to set up a repo and handle things
yourself.
I was doing a lot of work on Allegro back in the day, and I found that
many of the libraries I encountered only worked properly on SBCL.
At that point I started always working from source repos, rather than
initially getting from QL and then having to backtrack to source repo
when the library broke.
So I am definitely not going to make ASDF just the build system for
Quicklisp!
I am *always* willing to cooperate with Xach or anyone else to make ASDF
work smoothly with QL, but ASDF will never be just a QL module.
