[asdf-devel] asdf 1.600

[Faré]

While I don't have clear numbering plans for ASDF post 2.0,
my plan until we reach 2.0 is that I will try to get near 1.x00 when a
major feature is added.

We're currently at 1.601. It is hopefully stable enough for
implementors to use. At least that's the intent. But it is not yet
extensively tested (though no worse than previous ASDFs), and not yet
extensively documented. So it doesn't qualify as the desired 2.0
release.

I would certainly like it if Lisp implementations would upgrade ASDF
already, and I made a special effort to merge what you sent me for
ECL. But I admit I am not going to fight for it, either, until the
time is ripe, because I have only so many forces for fighting, and
might not be able to pull it off twice.

And so, regarding ECL: please upgrade ASDF to 1.601 if you can. It
would be nice. And reduce the asdf self-upgrade strictures.

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On 4 February 2010 03:04, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just released ASDF 1.600 in the official repository.
>
> Please do not feel offended by the following: I am grateful that ASDF is
> moving so quickly.
> However, for the future, I think you should avoid by all means the word
> "release" and "release numbers" that are approaching the hundred-ths. There
> is no way for unknowledgeable users nor busy implementors to find milestones
> or real _releases_ that we should ship with our implementations.
> Maybe if the next release is ASDF 2.0 one should begin thinking on a
> different numbering, distinguishing individual sets of fixes pushed via git
> from monthly releases that aim at broader testing -- by that I mean with
> something like http://ecls.sf.net/logs.html but replacing platforms with
> implementations. I would not mind help on the latter at some point, but
> commercial implementations would be out of my reach.
> Juanjo
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