Re: [cclan-list] [PATCH] Re: Could there be a way to disable LOAD-PREFERENCES?

[Richard M K. <kr...@pr...>]

Gary King <gw...@me...> writes:

> I think I was the original preferences perpetrator and I use the  
> mechanism in some places. After more thought (aided by the discussion  
> here), I think that preference loading should not be part of the  
> current ASDF (though maybe they could/should be part of the  
> hypothetical incf-asdf). I'd be happy to do something like the  
> following:
>
>   * add a special that turns on preference loading if it bound to  
> true; it's initial binding will be nil
>   * mark all the preference code as deprecated, to be removed in X  
> months (X = 3?)

I'm okay with this proposal.

--
Richard