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
