Attila Lendvai wrote:
short-horizon alternative (besides using the revision control systems, which
doesn't work terribly well when there are cross-library dependencies). If I
fwiw, in my experience this is right the opposite.
i don't say that i never have problems putting together a working
setup, because inter-library dependencies can cause headaches with
non-backward compatible changes, but in such situations i find DVCS'es
especially useful.
Actually, I think perhaps the biggest part of the problem is that the
:version :depends-on (and indeed, the :version attribute itself) in ASDF
has never really caught on, meaning that as a library or system user
it's hard to detect when a dependency has failed.
Ideally, with a :version depends-on, it should be possible to detect
when, e.g., my beirc update requires a version of cl-irc I don't have....
Doubly ideally, ASDF-install should support installing particular
version numbers, and ASDF should permit us to have multiple versions of
a single library installed.... But if people don't use the :version
attributes, there's not really a lot of point in fussing about handling
versions.
I suppose it would be possible to back-end ASDF-install to a DVCS or a
conventional VCS...
cheers,
r
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