[asdf-devel] Last call before code freeze

[Robert Goldman]

On 4/29/10 Apr 29 -3:00 PM, dherring at tentpost.com wrote:
> Robert Goldman wrote:
>> On 4/29/10 Apr 29 -2:30 PM, Faré wrote:
>>> I'd like to freeze the main branch of ASDF tomorrow for anything but
>>> bug fixes and documentation updates.
>>>
>>> Is there anything any of you want to commit before the freeze? Or as
>>> an exception to the freeze.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking in particular of the stuff in asdf-ecl. Juanjo, do you
>>> think it should be merged with ASDF itself? Especially in the light of
>>> it being semi-useful on other platforms where fasls can be
>>> concatenated? It might make things nicer if there is only one file
>>> needed for ASDF.
>>
>> Do we have the system dependencies right yet?
> 
> Probably not.  However, I don't see that as a regression, nor has it
> prevented ASDF from gaining dominance.  Thus it can probably wait until
> after the ASDF 2 release.  No?

You are half right.

You are right that the absence of system-dependencies didn't hurt ASDF 1.

But that's not the situation now.  At this point system-dependencies are
in ASDF 2.  I'm arguing that if we don't have them right yet, we should
rip them out.

The regression vis a vis ASDF 1 is introducing a new feature that we
know to be broken, not being missing a feature.

James pointed out before that this was busted and I didn't realize it
until I used it.  So a tip of the "I told you so" hat to James.

In other words, Daniel, we are agreeing about the principle of the
thing, but are not on the same page about the status of the ASDF 2 code
base.

Best,
r