[slime-devel] Re: which version of slime with which version of sbcl?

[Frédéric Gobry]

> Maybe there should be a slime-installer.deb package which pulled the
> latest from CVS -- it could provide a false sense of security for
> those needing it. ;-)

I see the smiley, but the issue is interesting: the _actual_ sense of
security served by using debian is indeed to have software components
that work together, because they were not pulled from many random
places. It's not the issue of installing things by hand. But even this
is not to neglect: as a newcomer, it took me some time to start
learning lisp, then asdf, then this, then that, which seem to always
make my initial goal more remote. I'm really convinced that lisp is a
language of great value, otherwise I would have already given up and
sticked to python :-)

As I said to someone offlist, I have really been surprised by the
difference between lisp-the-language, which looks very mature, and
lisp-the-implementations-and-the-libraries, which move very fast and
require you to be rather careful because of incompatibilities
(unicode, threads, networking are the one I met during my short lisp
life). I think that maybe by knowing it beforehand, I would maybe have
stopped trying to stick to "tested packages" and jumped in the stream
more directly.

Frédéric