[slime-devel] Re: SLIME CVS open to anonymous downloads?

[Lawrence Mitchell]

Dave Roberts wrote:

> So I just tried to download the latest version of SLIME via CVS but got
> stopped. Looks like there is a password needed for anonymous downloads?
> I followed the instructions in the SLIME user manual located at:
> http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/misc/lisp/slime.pdf

The manual's wrong, in fact, you have to enter "anonymous" as a
password, at least, according to http://www.common-lisp.net/faq.shtml.

[...]

Luke (or someone), here's a patch for slime.texi.

Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.339
diff -u -r1.339 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog	17 Apr 2004 09:51:17 -0000	1.339
+++ ChangeLog	17 Apr 2004 21:08:08 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-04-17  Lawrence Mitchell  <wence at gmx.li>
+
+	* doc/slime.texi (CVS Incantations): Give correct password for
+	anonymous access.
+
 2004-04-17  Raymond Toy <rtoy at earthlink.net>
 
 	* swank-cmucl.lisp (source-location-tlf-number)

Index: doc/slime.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/doc/slime.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -r1.9 slime.texi
--- doc/slime.texi	16 Apr 2004 19:30:43 -0000	1.9
+++ doc/slime.texi	17 Apr 2004 21:07:21 -0000
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@
 @example
 export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@@common-lisp.net:/project/slime/cvsroot
 cvs login
- at emph{(Just press return when prompted for a password.)}
+ at emph{(Enter @strong{anonymous} as password.)}
 @end example
 
 The latest version can then be checked out with:

-- 
Lawrence Mitchell <wence at gmx.li>