[slime-devel] Re: SLIME User Survey

[lawrence mitchell]

Luke Gorrie wrote:

> If the ALU can do it then so can we :-). It would be nice to get some
> feedback to understand which backends are getting the most/least usage
> and which ones are flaky.

> So if you are an active SLIME user and you have a moment then please
> reply to this mail (send the reply to the list).

> Questions:

> Which Lisp versions do you use SLIME with?

SBCL cvs and CMUCL 18e

> Which Emacs versions?

GNU Emacs 21.3.50 (cvs, multi-tty branch).

> How well does SLIME work for you?

Almost without fault, the occaisional small bugs I find seem to
be problems with either Emacs (e.g. a change in rename-buffer),
or the lisps (e.g. some backtrace frames being unavailable in
SBCL).

> What bugs (reproducible or otherwise) or missing features annoy you?

I also think hitting RET on old REPL input should resend it.
Other than that, I can't think of much.

> Is there some packaging system (e.g. Debian) that you would like to
> see SLIME 1.0 bundled with? If so, do you know how to coordinate this?

I'm not a big fan of the Debian Emacs packaging, but, otoh, it
does deal relatively easily with multiple installed versions.
It's quite easy to do though, I can probably have a look at it
when I've unpacked boxes if people like.

> If you said anything negative above then please say something nice
> here to make us feel good:

SLIME Just Works, which is nice.

-- 
lawrence mitchell <wence at gmx.li>