[asdf-install-devel] darcs support

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Gary King writes:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

This is a problem.  Why is it forked?  Couldn't some hooks be
sufficient to let these implementations do what they need without
forking libraries?


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