[slime-devel] Updating SLIME

[Helmut Eller]

Jan Rychter <jan at rychter.com> writes:

> How do you guys update SLIME?
> 
> It seems to me that since slime-changelog-date is a defvar, it doesn't
> change when reloading (or re-evaluating) slime.el. So when the protocol
> changes, emacs still thinks it speaks the old version.

That's right.

> Do you actually *gasp* quit your XEmacs or Emacs from time to time?

Of course not :-).  I reload the file and C-M-x the defvar form for
slime-changelog-date.  C-M-x'ing re-initializes the variable.

I changed this and now Emacs re-initializes the variable at load-time.
So you only have to reload slime.el.

Helmut.