[slime-devel] Re: .swank.lisp

[Peter Seibel]

"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?

Well, if I can make one small change to swank-loader.lisp that can
accomodate this kind of customization and it gets folded into the
mainline then I don't have to track further changes to
swank-loader.lisp. While I may be the only one who needs to customize
SLIME in this way at the moment it's not a particularly Lispbox
specific change--I'm just making it possible for anyone installing
SLIME to customize where it looks for .swank.lisp while leaving the
default behavior to look in the user's home dir.

-Peter

-- 
Peter Seibel                                     peter at gigamonkeys.com

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp