[slime-devel] Re: Good and bad things about SLIME

[Luke Gorrie]

Ignas Mikalajunas <voblia at centras.lt> writes:

> Luke Gorrie <luke at bluetail.com> writes:
> 
> > Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> >
> > Just a note: I think this is the first time somebody has run SLIME on
> > Windows. I'm amazed that it didn't have a bunch of little portability
> > niggles preventing it from even starting up. Very good!
> >
> 
>    I thought it was multiplatform ;)

Apparently you thought more or less right :-)

At least now I feel glad about changing "/tmp/" to this monstrosity:

  (cond ((fboundp 'temp-directory) (temp-directory))
         ((boundp 'temporary-file-directory) temporary-file-directory)
         (t "/tmp/"))

after Dan noticed it was a potential Win32-portability problem.

>  yet I am experiencing serious problems with running swank on gentoo by 
> using "asdf" ... gentoo puts files compiled by asdf into a temp dir 
> something like /usr/lib/common-lisp/cmucl/swank/ yet the sources are in
> /usr/share/common-lisp/source/swank/ , so the swank-loader is trying to 
> find it's sources in the same dir the compiled file is ...

Is the Gentoo maintainer someone reading this list? If so, any
comments?

> like /usr/lib/common-lisp/cmucl/swank/swank-backend.lisp . I managed to
> track the problem to the place the pathnames are generated :
> 
> (defun make-swank-pathname (name &optional (type "lisp"))                       
>   "Return a pathname with name component NAME in the Slime directory."          
>   (merge-pathnames name                                                         
>                    (make-pathname                                               
>                     :type type                                                  
>                     :directory                                                  
>                     (pathname-directory                                         
>                      (or *compile-file-pathname* *load-pathname*                
>                          *default-pathname-defaults*)))))
> 
> *compile-file-pathname* on cmulisp is nil
> *load-pathname* points to the directory the compiled files are stored in
> 
> yet I am not a good lisp programmer so i don't know how to make it detect
> the right path (like make swank get the path from asdf)
> 
>   Ignas Mikalajunas