Re: [cclan-list] aside from the pangs of history, what about moving ASDF to common-lisp.net

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   Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:57:00 -0500 (EST)
   From: Daniel Herring <dhe...@te...>

   > If not, then what do folks think about moving it to common-lisp.net?

   Sounds fine to me.

   Either way, I'd recommend joining the DVCS club:

   CVS was never fun

Actually, I'm rather tired of the current "but it's better" nonsense
on version control systems.  I've heard a dozen names now, and most of
that crap is hard to maintain and disappears quick to the next-new-kid
on the block.  I suppose that the illusion of having a 'real
up-to-date rvcs' makes up for a lack of progress elsewhere.

A old well-worn tool has little problem amongst the users of some
software, it makes it easy to obtain.  Some new tool that will be dead
next week makes sure that software dies.  If the purpose of software
improvement is to increase acceptance among the userbase, then making
the software easy to obtain is rather important.


[1] for instance, currently Subversion is broken here, since it
requires a version of Neon that breaks some important software.  Great
job!  Neon is apparently a piece of shit that has zero backwards
compatibility, and that ranks Subversion for me too.  Over the past
few years, it's gotten to the point that discovering some new software
package has yet-another-rcvs in use usually results dropping interest.