[slime-devel] Protocol mismatches

[Sean O'Rourke]

Lawrence Mitchell <wence at gmx.li> writes:

> Helmut Eller wrote:
>> But we just abort when the Lisp and ELisp versions are out sync.
>> Not sure if a more automatic mechanism is worth the trouble.

I think both should just generate warnings rather than erroring out --
it makes much more sense to warn the user and give him/her a chance to
continue:

   (unless (y-or-n-p "Version mismatch with $FILE.  Proceed anyways?")
           (error ...))

than to simply refuse to start.

/s