<div dir="ltr">The late Dan Weinreb's mileage was a lot different, mind you: <a href="http://xach.livejournal.com/278815.html">http://xach.livejournal.com/278815.html</a><div><br></div><div>I just go completely the other way, preferring mx-what-ever to mx:what-ever by a mile.</div><div><br></div><div>-kt</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Michael J. Forster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@sharedlogic.ca" target="_blank">mike@sharedlogic.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 29 December 2015 at 19:25, Pascal Costanza <<a href="mailto:pc@p-cos.net">pc@p-cos.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
[...]<br>
><br>
> Also, I agree with Kenny<br>
> that splitting libraries into too fine-grained small little packages is not<br>
> a good recipe for organizing your projects. Lisp packages want to be big,<br>
> and there is no major disadvantage in doing so, and I fear that hierarchical<br>
> package names encourage unnecessary fine-grained splitting. That just<br>
> creates visibility problems, and distract from solving /actual/ problems.<br>
[...]<br>
<br>
On a related note, I attempted to retrofit a 150K+ LOC application<br>
with "inferred packages"[1] and, revision time and effort aside, I<br>
think the only dependency problem it solved was the one it created. I<br>
have not tried it with a larger or smaller application, and, of<br>
course, YMMV.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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[1] <a href="http://davazp.net/2014/11/26/modern-library-with-asdf-and-package-inferred-system.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://davazp.net/2014/11/26/modern-library-with-asdf-and-package-inferred-system.html</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Kenneth Tilton</div><div dir="ltr">54 Isle of Venice Dr<br><div>Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:ken@tiltontec.com" target="_blank">ken@tiltontec.com</a></div><div><a href="http://tiltontec.com" target="_blank">http://tiltontec.com</a><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">@tiltonsalgebra</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>646-269-1077</div><div><br></div><div>"In a class by itself." <i>-Macworld</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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