[slime-devel] Re: .swank.lisp

Luke Gorrie luke at synap.se
Tue Mar 1 22:33:32 UTC 2005


"Marco Baringer" <mb at bese.it> writes:

> Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com> writes:
> 
> > Or another way to achieve my goal, is to have swank-loader load a
> > file, site-swank.lisp if it exists and to define a variable which will
> > turn off loading of the user-init-file. Then I can build a
> > site-swank.lisp that does the initialization I need for Lispbox and
> > then disable loading of the users .swank.lisp. (I want to do this
> > because the whole point of my Lispbox distro is to provide a stable a
> > predictable environment.
> 
> i'm confused, why don't you just edit the swank-loader.lisp you
> distribute with lisp in a box? would this change provide some benefit
> other than making lisp in a box easier to build?

Assuming the idea is to avoid forking (however slightly) then the
second option (first load site-swank.lisp in same dir as swank-loader)
sounds fine to me.





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