Re: Next steps

2021-11-17 Thread Andreas Davour
On Wed, 17 Nov 2021, Robert Dodier wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 10:45 AM Robert Goldman wrote: I favor something like this because it would be nice to have prerelease versions of ASDF that perform version checks properly. What I mean is, if we are going to add a feature in version 3.4, ri

Re: ASDF components are brittle for backwards compatibility

2021-04-30 Thread Andreas Davour
On Thu, 29 Apr 2021, Stelian Ionescu wrote: Instead of dedicating much work to ensuring that newer DEFSYSTEMs work with old ASDF versions, we should make it clear that one should just update ASDF frequently. I have no horse in the present race, but I want to add my support to the general sen

Re: System cleanup

2021-03-19 Thread Andreas Davour
On Fri, 19 Mar 2021, Faré wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 3:10 AM Andreas Davour wrote: What more, even Xach […] updated the fallback ASDF in Quicklisp from 2.26 to 3.2.1! Didn't he revert that change after something broke? Not according to the git repository of quicklisp-client. Als

Re: System cleanup

2021-03-19 Thread Andreas Davour
On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, Faré wrote: Considering that SBCL upgraded to 3.1.5 in July 2015, I think you should be pretty safe assuming that your users' ASDF is more recent than 3.1.4. What more, even Xach seems to have miraculously seen the light: one months and one week ago, he updated the fallback

Re: Apologies for slow progress...

2020-08-02 Thread Andreas Davour
Very much so, yes! -a On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, Marco Antoniotti wrote: Yep. Let me second that. All the best Marco On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 12:01 PM cage wrote: On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 03:00:31PM -0500, Robert Goldman wrote: Hi! [...] I think there is no needs to apologize, i believe

Re: How to debug finding files

2019-11-26 Thread Andreas Davour
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, Robert Goldman wrote: On 26 Nov 2019, at 6:18, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi I've read the manual on how asdf finds the files to load, i.e. the asd files. But, if you want to follow along when it does that calculation, in case it goes wrong, how do you do that? I se

How to debug finding files

2019-11-26 Thread Andreas Davour
Hi I've read the manual on how asdf finds the files to load, i.e. the asd files. But, if you want to follow along when it does that calculation, in case it goes wrong, how do you do that? I seem to remember this being posted to the list ages back, but have no way of searching that history.

Re: trouble with upgrade of asdf and versions

2019-09-03 Thread Andreas Davour
Others might have some more fruitful input, but I would suggest if using something else than GNU CLISP is an option at all, do it. It's an implementation with significant less support than say ccl or sbcl. /andreas -- "economics is a pseudoscience; the astrology of our time" Kim Stanley Rob