Common-Lisp-Controller needs to evolve

[pvaneynd]

clc is having problems. The design is getting Byzantine and in general much to complex to solve even seemingly obvious problems. The current design with build-daemon, cronjobs, spool directory etc. has to die. But what should replace it?

Kevin Rosenberg has a interesting idea: do not build for all users of the system anymore, just has a per-user cache of compiled packages in ~/.clc//. When you upgrade an implementation or a library you just nuke the cache directory for all users. When a user requests a library the library gets recompiled on-the-fly and if there are problems the user is dropped into the debugger so there is some hope to get useful bugreports.

The major problems are that we would be deleting files in every user's homedirectory(!) and that we would not build all libraries on a routine basis, so bugs could go unnoticed for quite some time...