On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Stefan Kamphausen <ska2...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > Of course I see the amount of work, esp. since I am following Slime > development and I know how fast it moves from time to time. > > However, since many people like to use HEAD CVS SLIME for developing > Common Lisp (HEAD is often considered the only version working with > latest SBCL) there is a big problem for all people who want to use > Clojure AND CL.
Understood. But I'm not one of those people. I'm lucky if I have a couple hours each week to work on this, and that time must be split between reviewing incoming contributions *and* writing new code. I hope you'll forgive me if I choose to work more on the problems that directly affect me. > For that scenario a fork of SLIME seems to be the > only usable way, so that you can still use HEAD SLIME for SBCL and > CLOJIME (or whatever ;-) for Clojure. > > Or am I mistaken? The best thing would be for someone who cares about CL to volunteer to bring swank-clojure up to date. I would be thrilled for the issues to be resolved and updated versions of the necessary elisp libs be packaged up. A fork would also be a solution, but it would still be a lot of work, and it would interfere with reconciliation in the future. -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.
