[asdf-devel] Is this necessary in this form? Re: ASDF 1.501

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

On 2010/02/02, at 13:46 , james anderson wrote:
> I never had a
> good feeling about a configuration system which introduced itself to
> the world with the conclusion "Hence, all in one file", and am ever
> less convinced that it needs to be that way.

Are you complaining here from the developers of ASDF stand point of  
from the users of ASDF stand point?

My understanding is that the single-file feature is a good thing for  
users of ASDF: they only have to download and LOAD a single file.   
This is good.


For the developers of ASDF point of view, if it becomes inconvenient  
to develop in a single big source file, it shouldn't be too hard to  
split the sources in several files, and have an asd file to build  
asdf.lisp from the concatenation of the source files.


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