Anyone interested in "package versioning"?

[Stelian Ionescu]

On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 00:21 -0400, Jean-Claude Beaudoin wrote:
> Hi CL Pros,
> 
> I just came across a post on Quora
> <https://www.quora.com/Where-did-we-go-wrong-Why-didnt-Common-Lisp-fi
> x-the-world/answer/Robert-Smith-9?srid=dnzK>
> 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?

It's a very bad idea to do code versioning in the linker/loader in
order to load two versions at the same time. Saying it makes code-reuse
hard is preposterous.

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.


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