[slime-devel] slime release - The Big Two Point Zero!

[Nathan Bird]

"Good news, everyone! I've taught the toaster to feel love!" [1]

Can we get a last few patches in for some compatibility bugs? Maybe we then
want to have it as FAIRLY-STABLE for a few days to make sure they don't
introduce a regression? 

I only followed the 1.2.1 conversation cursorily but wasn't it launched by
some complaint over unstable named release? Let's try to make a good one
here; it's the big Two Point Zero! 

Then we can bump the version number with big fanfare and hooplah on Planet
Lisp, Slashdot, and Reddit. Get some good press for our favorite development
environment.

Anyone know who maintains (is it dead) the Lisp In a Box? Maybe try to get a
simultaneous release?

Problems and patches:

Slime CVS has been broken on XEmacs for several weeks now (due to use of
assoc-default).
Originally reported with bugs:
http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2006-April/004737.html
Better fix after discussion:
http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2006-April/004757.html 
This alone is fixed with the attached patch slime-filename-translations.diff

Slime CVS won't work on some windows setups (not accounting for :device).
http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2006-April/004736.html 
This alone is fixed with the attached patch swank-source-files.diff

Slime-loader doesn't work nicely with CLC. I don't know too much about it; I
came across this patch tracking down another problem.
http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2006-March/004664.html
The patch swank-loader-ALL.diff wraps up the patches given in that thread
and my separate patch for windows compat. I have only tested the
#-common-lisp-controller branch of this; 


All of those patches together are given in patch nb-4-12-06.diff 

I think these are fairly stable. I have tried to test them with X and Gnu
Emacs on WinXP + ACL7-trail, and Debian2.6 + SBCL 0.9.10 without hitting any
problems.

Regards,
Nathan Bird

[1] I don't know, it just seemed appropriate somehow.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Futurama

>-----Original Message-----
>From: slime-devel-bounces at common-lisp.net [mailto:slime-devel-
>bounces at common-lisp.net] On Behalf Of Mario S.Mommer
>Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:36 PM
>To: slime-devel at common-lisp.net
>Subject: [slime-devel] slime release
>
>
>Hello,
>
>I plan to take the current slime from cvs (taken at the moment I post
>this) and call it a release.
>
>Given the many features and fixes added since 1.3.1, I propose
>calling/numbering it
>
>                              slime 2.0
>
>If there aren't any objections, I will publish it in about 24 hours.
>
>Regards,
>        Mario.
>
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