[slime-devel] Package split

[Raymond Wiker]

Helmut Eller writes:
 > 
 > I just merged my package-split branch into the main trunk.  We have
 > now a new package SWANK-BACKEND.  It is basically stand-alone and
 > doesn't need the rest of SWANK.  Of course, SWANK calls functions in
 > the backend.  I moved some functionality like handling of restarts and
 > a lot symbol-to-string conversion to swank.lisp.  The load order is
 > now:
 >   
 >  swank-loader, swank-backend, swank-[cmucl,sbcl...], swank
 > 
 > This means, we could define macros in the backend and use them in
 > SWANK.
 > 
 > I tested a bit with my usual implementations.  I added the necessary
 > changes for OpenMCL, but don't know if they actually work. Feedback
 > welcome.

        Doesn't seem to work for sbcl 0.8.8.3 under FreeBSD - I'm
getting load errors for swank-source-path-parser. I also saw
references to "unknown package SWANK", so I'm guessing that the
compile/load order is wrong for SBCL.

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