[asdf-devel] asdf verbosity

[Zach Beane]

Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> writes:

> Got it.  So you didn't object to the old level of verbosity?  

No, which is why I wrote that I'd be happy if the old behavior was restored.

> I'm confused because it seemed like the alternatives were new, greater
> verbosity, versus silence, neither of which seems very appealing to
> me.

Those are indeed both bad choices.

> I guess the challenge that's specific to ql is that you'd like to be
> able to throttle verbosity, but the use of invocations of LOAD-SYSTEM
> inside .asd files (rather than in depends-on) breaks that, right?  Is
> the right answer (horrors! ;->) a dynamically bound verbosity-controller?

Any change that I can ignore, and still get the current appearance,
behavior, and semantics, is one I don't mind.

Zach