[slime-devel] Re: Slime and :sb-futex on recent CVS SBCLs

[Luke Gorrie]

Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

> Andreas Fuchs <asf at boinkor.net> writes:
> 
> > I'm not entirely sure which of SBCL or SLIME needs to be fixed. Either
> > SBCL should start including :sb-futex on its *feature* list again (or
> > some other feature saying that threads are non-broken on this lisp
> > build), or SLIME should stop checking for :sb-futex (which will break
> > on SBCLs older than 0.8.21).
> 
> If it's possible given the time constraints and cvs tagging activity,
> I'd be happy if the preferred-communication-style checked only
> :sb-thread, and if the slime release notes for 1.2 required an sbcl of
> 0.8.21 or later.

Does :sb-thread reasonably imply a working threads implementation? My
only concern is that if SBCL on some platforms would have :sb-thread
by default but not a reliable implementation, i.e. if SLIME suddenly
starts using threads by default on platforms where it shouldn't.