[asdf-devel] A dream for ASDF2

[Faré]

Dear Daniel,

> My issue is that there is a great similarity; this similarity is driven by a
> need inherent in the use of libraries; but ASDF (due to history) has certain
> things absolutely backwards.
If you want to fix Lisp build tools in a way that is incompatible with
ASDF, then ASDF isn't it. Try XCVB or roll your own. ASDF will remain
backwards compatible. Happily, _deepfire's build farm now provides a
way to test ASDF backwards compatibility in practice, so we can make
incompatible changes to things nobody uses and actually test that they
don't break stuff.

>From experience I can tell you that precious little of what you
propose will be implemented by anyone but yourself.

If I have a piece of advice, it would be: if you can find a way to
write a CL plugin to OMake or Eclipse or GNU Make or autotools, or
whatever, instead of recreating a whole build system, you win. I can
tell you, recreating a whole build system sucks. And a very lonely
job.

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