Anyone interested in "package versioning"?

[Jean-Claude Beaudoin]

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Jean-Claude Beaudoin
> <jean.claude.beaudoin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi CL Pros,
> >
> > I just came across a post on Quora by Robert Smith where he mentions the
> > idea of assigning some sort of "version" to Common Lisp packages in
> order to
> > improve code configuration control.
> >
> > This seems to me to be a pretty neat and interesting idea!
> >
> > Has anyone of you explored such a concept, or know of anyone that did?
> > Or, is anyone of you curious about it?
> >
> > I think pretty seriously that I will implement something like this as a
> CL
> > extension in my upcoming MKCL 2.0.
> >
> ASDF already has some notion of system version.
> There were some discussions on the list on how to make it extensible,
> if you care for more than its "semantic versioning".
>
> But really, if you really care about configuration control, what you
> need is a whole-world build system like NixOS or Bazel. No amount of
> hacking ASDF will take you remotely near there.
>
> See also chapter 9 of my Houyhnhnm saga:
> http://ngnghm.github.io/blog/2016/04/26/chapter-9-build-systems/
>
>
Interesting material to consider that you point to here. Thank you Faré.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.common-lisp.net/pipermail/pro/attachments/20160518/48a4ceaf/attachment.html>