> Personally, doing a lot of direct patching to a production system scares > me. I worry about introducing bugs/hidden dependencies that wouldn't be > represented in source code, and getting conflicts between multiple > developers updating the same lisp. > Maybe your button should only allow "load this asdf system". Then every code you use as a patch is a system that can be checked in -- hopefully just the same as you'd have in a fresh image, though sometime you need special magic (unintern, fmakunbound, etc.) to upgrade a live system that you don't need in a dead one.
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