Re: [Sbcl-devel] RFE: Quicklisp by default

[Zach B. <xa...@xa...>]

Nathan Froyd <fr...@gm...> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Mike Manilone <cr...@gm...> wrote:
>> 於 二，2013-04-30 於 13:56 +0400，Stas Boukarev 提到：
>> > I don't think anybody has problems with downloading a single file and
>> > loading it. Bundling it with SBCL just means that older releases will
>> > have an outdated version of quicklisp.
>>
>> That's just easier to get it working. quicklisp-client itself doesn't
>> get outdated so fast though. What's more, you can also use quicklisp to
>> update itself. :-/
>
> Would quicklisp updates work properly for system-wide installs (i.e.
> where the SBCL user doesn't have write permissions to SBCL_HOME)?  If
> not, then we'd have to convince Zach to include such functionality
> (unlikely, since he's already expressed disinterest in having
> quicklisp included in the first place) or write such functionality
> ourselves, which defeats the purpose of bundling, IMHO.

It doesn't work well for a site-wide installation. It's something I'd
like to support in some way, or at least not accidentally thwart, but
it's not working today.

Zach