[slime-devel] Incompatibility in latest UCW and SLIME

[Chris Capel]

I'm tracking the head of both UCW and SLIME, with SBCL. SLIME recently
added the external-format keyword to a bunch of different functions,
including swank-backend:accept-connection. Accept-connection is used
by UCW as its socket interface. It doesn't pass an encoding. Either
UCW should pass an encoding, or accept-connection should pick up on
the default *CODING-SYSTEM*, or swank-sbcl.lisp should pick up on it
somewhere. The error I'm getting is in swank-sbcl.lisp,
make-socket-io-stream. External-formal is nil, and thus falls through
the ECASE. Right now, only swank:start-server, create-server, and
create-swank-server pick up on the default coding system.

The argument could be made that SLIME needs a sensible default in this
situation. The argument could be made that UCW needs to be in control
of this sort of thing. I'll leave it to you all.

Chris Capel
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