On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Stefan Kamphausen <ska2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > In the long run the Clojure community should either create an > "official" fork of SLIME (and try to port the good stuff, that happens > in SLIME) or try to work closer together with the fine SLIME folks. I > don't think that we should risk losing the Emacs users, because they > may be very happy to find a usable way of leveraging Java's wealth > without having to type Java ;-) And the frequency of Emacs-setup- > related posts in the near past should tell us that things are not too > well right now.
You'll notice 90% of the "I'm having trouble with Emacs" posts have one thing in common: they all start with "I'm trying to install without ELPA". I would like to keep swank in line with upstream slime, but it is a lot of work. There are just so many more valuable things to work on right now... when using an older version of slime is such a low-friction solution, it's hard to justify the amount of work it would take to bring everything up to date with the latest, especially given the fact that slime "doesn't do stable releases". Though Hugo has done a fair bit of this work, and I'm grateful for that. If anyone else is keen on the latest slime then I'd be glad to get contributions from them too. -Phil -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
