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<p dir="auto">On 17 Nov 2021, at 12:32, Stelian Ionescu wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">You don't have to use the Quicklisp client to load dependencies, just to fetch them (as a package manager).<br>
And for that, I think it should be always used this way.</p>
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<p dir="auto">That only works if you are using the QL libraries unchanged. If you need to patch or extend them, you need to set up a repo and handle things yourself.</p>
<p dir="auto">I was doing a lot of work on Allegro back in the day, and I found that many of the libraries I encountered only worked properly on SBCL.</p>
<p dir="auto">At that point I started always working from source repos, rather than initially getting from QL and then having to backtrack to source repo when the library broke.</p>
<p dir="auto">So I am definitely not going to make ASDF just the build system for Quicklisp!</p>
<p dir="auto">I am <em>always</em> willing to cooperate with Xach or anyone else to make ASDF work smoothly with QL, but ASDF will never be just a QL module.</p>
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