Pascal Costanza wrote: > >>>> ~/common-lisp/ is slightly more pretentious, but probably works, too. >> That would be my preference. >> >>>> ~/cl/ is taking a lot of familiarity, and maybe I should keep it my >>>> personal configuration rather than a recommended default. >>> These last two have been rejected by Pascal and others for what I feel >>> are good reasons. >> I thought Pascal has just rejected ~/lisp/ because of his current setup. >> I haven't seen anyone comment on either ~/common-lisp/ or ~/cl/ >> >> I believe that ~/common-lisp/ is the Right Thing™ at this point. > > Are you saying that I just got lucky because I happen to be subscribed to > this mailing list, but it's ok if other people have to suffer?
No, I am saying that you correctly pointed out that we should avoid a pathname that people are likely already to be using. > > For the records, I don't like any of the suggested "default" paths. > > Just make this a configuration option. For example, an environment variable, > or so, then everybody can choose their own preferred name. > > export ASDF_DEFAULT_PATH=~/common-lisp > > ...and please make this empty by default, so it doesn't mess up anything > unless I ask it to do so... I'm sorry, but that is not on the table. We are looking for a solution that will work without any active configuration by the user, beyond "put your system definition here, and you don't have to do anything." Best, r
