> 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.
This is definitely not true. You can configure ASDF pretty easily in such a way that you have a directory of local dependencies which override the ones in Quicklisp. I have lots of locally patched libraries and never had any problem with that. -- Stelian Ionescu
