Seems like an attempt to bring "lockfiles" or related concepts to Quicklisp. This is a desperately needed quality-of-life improvement for "modern" Common Lisp development.
However, I wish people in the Common Lisp community weren't weary of using ASDF directly. It already supports versioning and many features that do not exist in Quicklisp -- despite the fact Quicklisp wraps ASDF -- such as a package that depends on a version of a library newer (or older) than what exists in the current dist.
It's kind of impressive that Common Lisp is the only language I use where I can't expect code written today to work next month due to Quicklisp lacking versioning outside of the date attached to dists.
However, I wish people in the Common Lisp community weren't weary of using ASDF directly. It already supports versioning and many features that do not exist in Quicklisp -- despite the fact Quicklisp wraps ASDF -- such as a package that depends on a version of a library newer (or older) than what exists in the current dist.
It's kind of impressive that Common Lisp is the only language I use where I can't expect code written today to work next month due to Quicklisp lacking versioning outside of the date attached to dists.