[slime-devel] unix domain sockets

[Marcus Breiing]

* Helmut Eller

> Yes, that would be possible

It certainly is possible: I'm was using Slime that way when I wrote
the message and still am.  I just didn't include patches for the Emacs
side of things because what I have is unstructured and possibly
disruptive, owing to my lack of familiarity with Slime internals.

> and the needed changes on the Lisp seem to be small.

Changes on the CL side are very small and non-disruptive, as included
in the previous post.  There's only a little bit more to change on the
Emacs side, because processes are slightly different from connections.

>  But I think unix socket support, or security in general, isn't very
> important for a development tool.

I understand that point of view.  Note that I actually didn't
propose/request/suggest security features or even unix socket support
to be included in Slime, but just the slight refactoring needed for
painlessly _using_ more general connection objects - created outside
of Slime.

Now, more generality is always nice to have in a development tool,
don't you think?  ;-)

> The external helper programs add some complexity 

Which would be outside the scope of Slime itself.

Marcus