Almost there

[Robert Goldman]

On 7/12/15 Jul 12 -1:17 PM, Faré wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net> wrote:
>> This sounds like a good point.  Should we do this in the cover letter,
>> the changelog, manual, or some combination?
>>
>> My guess is that relatively few people actually upgrade their ASDFs in
>> place -- most just get ASDF from their implementation.  But that's not
>> an excuse for making them miserable.
>>
>> Faré, do you have a sentence about the change in location that I could use?
>>
> What about this?
> 
> "If you are using Windows and taking advantage of the default search
> path for the configuration and/or source-registry, then mind that this
> path has just changed in incompatible ways. If you have configuration
> files, you may have to move or copy them from
> $LOCALAPPDATA/common-lisp/config/ to
> $LOCALAPPDATA/config/common-lisp/. Meanwhile your cache will be moved
> from $LOCALAPPDATA/common-lisp/cache/ to
> $LOCALAPPDATA/cache/common-lisp/. However, you should not have to move
> your source code, still in subdirectories of
> $LOCALAPPDATA/common-lisp/source/"
> 
> NB: I have not used Windows, and if any Windows user actually relies
> on ASDF configuration, double-checking would be great.

I don't use Windows, either, so if there's anyone on the list who would
be so kind as to pull the prerelease ASDF, and check it against their
running configuration, along the lines laid out above, I would be very
grateful.