[asdf-devel] asdf verbosity

[Faré]

On 1 May 2011 14:11, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
> I can see both sides of this argument.  But I think Daniel is right in
> many ways --- ASDF is way down at the bottom of the dependency stack for
> the common lisp community and so the expectation of it remaining stable
> is pretty important.
>
Yes.

> Probably, though, to avoid stagnation, we need to soon begin a branch
> that will lead us to ASDF 3.
>
Note: in my mind, ASDF 3 is XCVB. Which is working great, but still
requires love before it correctly supports all the maintained
platforms that ASDF does and provides better failure modes than
dumping a backtrace on syntax errors.

> We need to find someone who wishes to lead us on that journey, though,
> since Faré has announced his desire to move on to something different.
>
If you think there's long term future in the current ASDF
architecture, you'll need someone else than I, indeed. If you want to
give a try to XCVB, you know where to find it.

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