[slime-devel] NEWS

[Helmut Eller]

Brian Mastenbrook <bmastenb at cs.indiana.edu> writes:

> Out of curiosity, why does there still seem to be no inclination to
> release? I just had a good friend of mine doubt whether SLIME was
> stable enough to use on the basis of it only being available via
> CVS. Most open source projects would have a tarball up by now; not
> having one is the exception and will lead people to think that we're
> in a state such that it's not usable yet.

But we have a tarball :-)
http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/cvs_root.tar.gz?tarball=1&cvsroot=slime

> I know fetching from CVS is easy, but that's not the point here. The
> fact that there has been no release yet send the wrong message, I
> think.

Today we received bugreports like "CLISP hangs on startup", "SBCL dies
with SIGBUS", "can't set FPU modes".  Desn't seem like SLIME is ready
for release and making a tarball will not help us getting there.

Helmut.