[asdf-devel] In defense of ASDF & Semantic versioning

[james anderson]

good afternoon;

On 21 Nov 2013, at 12:02 PM, Stelian Ionescu wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 23:24 +0100, Didier Verna wrote:
>> Pascal Costanza <pc at p-cos.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Just to chime in in the middle: There is no known solution to the
>>> so-called "DLL hell" problem.
>> 
>> You're right of course, but in practice, I think we have a lot to learn
>> from guix/nixos. Ultimately, I would like to see quicklisp and asdf melt
>> into a beast like that...
> 
> Me too, but my impression is that there will be significant opposition
> to that.

just as likely, insignificant opposition: there are those who would prefer it does less, better, rather than more ineffectually.

best regards, from berlin,