[slime-devel] Re: Towards 1.0?

[Helmut Eller]

Luke Gorrie <luke at bluetail.com> writes:

> I hacked swank-loader.lisp to put the fasl files in ~/.slime/fasl/ (on
> Win32 it's _slime instead). This way we can install in a read-only
> directory. Sound okay?

Yes, I like it. 

> So it seems to be worth interrupting normal hacking for a little while
> to get a 1.0 release out the door. I propose this release plan:
>
>   "alpha" release towards the end of this month:
>     Release a tarball of something FAIRLY-STABLE and encourage as many
>     people as possible to install and bash on it. Major bug-hunting
>     spree, last chance for people to suggest small changes.
>
>   "beta" release towards the end of July:
>     Take what we have after alpha and release that. Final round of
>     bug-hunting. Try really hard not to add features.
>
>   "1.0" release towards the end of August:
>     If we're satisfied at this point we make a slime-1.0.tar.gz and
>     put it on the 'net. We also try to get it bundled in packaging
>     systems (debian, gentoo, xemacs, etc).
>
> Thoughts?

Sounds good.  

Which versions of the various Lisp to we want to support?  The latest
released version in June?

Tests for the "essential" features we be nice.  It would also be nice
if we could write tests for a specific Lisp.

Are there any features we can remove?  I was going to suggest removing
the REPL (because the code is messy and a REPL is not the Emacs way to
interact with anything), but I guess people wouldn't like that :-)

Any outstanding keybinding wars?  A while ago we talked about grouping
documentation commands under C-c C-d; I like that idea.

Should we make a (final?) try to simplify the connection handling code
in swank.lisp?  It is not very readable, but I haven't any good ideas
to improve it.

Helmut.