Hello Desmond,

On 01/12/10 03:10, Desmond O. Chang wrote:
ASDF2 has been mature.  C-L-C is basically a thin wrapper now.  I plan
to remove some redundant features from c-l-c and related packages.

This is a good idea and a path that I would have followed if RL was not preventing me from contributing at the moment.

- Remove clc-(un)register-user-package.
- Remove (un)register-common-lisp-implementation.

Don't forget the 'Breaks' that you will have to issue against all previous CL packages, as removing these scripts will in fact break them.

Migration to this new system can be tricky...

* About image customizing

I don't know how many people are using it, but I think user should
maintain the images by him/herself.  So this will be removed, i.e.,

This was a request from a user. In fact I was always skeptical of this 'feature'.

* About clbuild

Personally I don't like clbuild.  I think a library installer such as
clbuild should work in user space, you can put its code in a directory
like ~/bin.  So clbuild will be removed.

There is a use-case for a 'global' clbuild: if you are the admin of for example a student server and you want to offer a stable library of CL packages for users...

We should retain some way for the admin to install CL libraries in a global manner.

* About /etc/lisp-config.lisp

Is it useful?  Now it just configures site name and clisp doesn't load
it at all.

I was meant to be useful a decade ago, indeed I think it has little to no use now.

I will create a new branch in the repo.  You can follow the
development process.

This I applaud. I've regretfully seen people uploading packages without commit this to the repo. That will only lead to bigger issues down the road :(.

Best regards, Peter

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