[asdf-devel] maybe hot-upgrade of ASDF is not needed anymore

[Robert Goldman]

On 2/7/13 Feb 7 -3:29 PM, Anton Vodonosov wrote:
> 
> 
> 08.02.2013, 01:11, "Robert Goldman" <rpgoldman at sift.info>:
>> On 2/7/13 Feb 7 -2:49 PM, Anton Vodonosov wrote:
>>>
>>>  Also, if user wants to use newer version of ASDF than is provided with hist CL implementations,
>>>  he just loads the newer ASDF. After this, even if he does (require :asdf) the ASDF version
>>>  provided by the CL implementation is not loaded, because ASDF registers itself in cl:*modules*.
>>>
>>>  And Quicklisp could avoid (require :asdf). Instead it could just check if ASDF is already
>>>  loaded. If it is, then use the version is loaded. If it isn't then immediately load the ASDF
>>>  version shipped with Quicklisp.
>>
>> Question: is this enough for Quicklisp?  Does quicklisp ever need to
>> specify a particular version of ASDF?
>>
>> I think of people running with release versions of implementations that
>> are not so eagerly updated.
>>
>> E.g., if you install the SBCL that comes with your linux install,
>> instead of building yourself, if you use a CCL 1.8 release, instead of
>> building from svn, or if you use a commercial CL implementation....
>>
>> I had the impression that in some of these cases you might find yourself
>> with an ASDF that is not sufficient to run the latest QL. Is that not so?
> 
> If user lods his own version of ASDF in the beginning, then the ASDF
> distributed with CL implementation is not used. Right?
> 

I'm still not following you.  If I have a stale copy of ASDF that came
with my implementation, and I load it, then I start using QL, doesn't
the version of ASDF that comes with QL need to hot upgrade?

thanks,
r