ASDF components are brittle for backwards compatibility

[Raymond Toy]

>>>>> "Stelian" == Stelian Ionescu <sionescu at cddr.org> writes:

    Stelian> Instead of dedicating much work to ensuring that newer
    Stelian> DEFSYSTEMs work with old ASDF versions, we should make it
    Stelian> clear that one should just update ASDF frequently.

While I don't follow too closely, I think most Lisps that include asdf
update asdf fairly frequently.  But isn't the biggest problem quicklisp
which uses a fairly old version of asdf?  (But maybe that's changed
now.)