Next steps

[Stelian Ionescu]

> On 17 Nov 2021, at 12:26, Stelian Ionescu wrote:
>
>> To guarantee an old working configuration you can simply point to the 
>> version of the Quicklisp distribution that it was last tested with. We 
>> should make it easy to specify that as metadata, and it would be much 
>> more useful than version constraints because ASDF is not blocking 
>> compilation (after all, even old software might very well work with 
>> newer version of the dependencies).
>
> This would be to assume that ASDF is only used in conjunction with 
> Quicklisp, which is not the case.

You don't have to use the Quicklisp client to load dependencies, just to fetch them (as a package manager).
And for that, I think it should be always used this way.

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Stelian Ionescu