Suggestions for procedure going forward

[Robert Goldman]

On 11/17/15 Nov 17 -4:00 PM, Stelian Ionescu wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 11:11 -0600, Robert Goldman wrote:
>> We have had a number of ASDF 3 releases that have mostly been aimed at
>> bug-fixing (although some new features have crept in).
>>
>> I'd like to declare ASDF 3 feature complete and done, but I don't want
>> to close the door to future bug fix releases as needed, nor do I want to
>> shove incomplete new features out in order to get bug fixes out.
> 
> One suggestion I have before doing that is to remove the whole upgrading
> mechanism. The purpose of it was to allow loading ASDF3 over ASDF 1/2
> when the various implementations were only shipping with the latter, but
> IMO it's now just a burden.
> 

I believe it's still useful in case one needs to upgrade even an ASDF 3
installation.  Particularly if we start work on an ASDF 4 that's not
fully compatible....

But perhaps Fare can weigh in on this.

best,
r