[asdf-devel] :depends-on to load-system or require-system?

[Faré]

John, which version of McCLIM  are you using on which platform? Give
us the URL, etc.

I remember battling with mcclim.asd before I could release ASDF 3. It
included a lot of cruft from the ASDF 1 days, and various bugs that I
fixed together with rpgolman.

It is also possible that McCLIM or one of its dependencies has
dependency bugs that used to be hidden by ASDF bugs: unlike ASDF3,
ASDF1 and after it ASDF2 don't properly propagate timestamps
transitively through dependencies. If somehow McCLIM has some kind of
circularity or bootstrapping whereby a file that is depended upon
earlier in the build is touched or re-created later in the build, or
even more simply, a declared input that doesn't exist or a declared
output that is never created, that will cause ASDF3 to reload a lot of
things where earlier versions wouldn't.

Can you
(1) check that you use the latest versions of McCLIM and its dependencies
(2) find a minimal case where things go wrong, and give us a trace of
perform-plan?

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