[slime-devel] CLISP users - stick with FAIRLY-STABLE (Was: Re: inspector for clisp)

[Pascal J.Bourguignon]

Luke Gorrie writes:
> marco <mb at bese.it> writes:
> 
> > Pascal J.Bourguignon <pjb at informatimago.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Just tag the last version of slime that work with clisp 2.33.2.
> > 
> > 1) what should i name the tag? (CLISP_SANS_MOP?)
> 
> Let's just use FAIRLY-STABLE, which is already in an appropriate place
> at SLIME-1-0. CLISP users should stick with that for the moment.

FAIRLY-STABLE is a moving target. What about a production software
written with clisp 2.33.1 that would need maintenance in six months?

CVS Tags are not costly.

> Is the issue that the inspector is broken for non-CVS CLISP or that
> SLIME doesn't work at all? If the latter it would be good to make it
> mostly-compatible if that isn't too hard/ugly.

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