<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">i've been playing with the idea of adding darcs support to asdf-install. unfortunately i don't have that much free time to jump right into it, so i sum up my ideas and design plan, so maybe someone feels like hacking on it. if there are other interested people we could use this mail as a scratch doc, feel free to add/change whatever you feel like is missing/wrong, but please start your reply as a forward so the mail will not be full of reply-annotations. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm strongly in favor of enhancing ASDF-Install to support multiple source code access routes above and beyond tarballs pointed at by the CLiki.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, I think that it would be better to keep ASDF-Install as simple as possible and create a new project with all the bells and whistles. The main reason for this is that ASDF-Install is already forked (the SBCL version and the Portable version and perhaps the OpenMCL version) and this adds to confusion as people evaluate Lisps.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>So my suggestion would be to pick a new name (for example phloog or wrackd (which aren't taken as domain names as of a few weeks ago <smile>)) and start a design effort. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The trouble, as usual, is that I expect that most of the most interested parties are feeling the time crunch. I know I am.</DIV><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Gary Warren King, metabang.com </DIV><DIV>Cell: (413) 885 9127</DIV><DIV>Fax: (206) 338-4052</DIV></SPAN><DIV>gwkkwg on Skype * garethsan on AIM</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>