[slime-devel] [patch] Make it possible to keep FASL files in source directory

[Helmut Eller]

* Nathan Bird [2006-01-19 00:23+0100] writes:

> Can we please make swank continue to be fully loaded by default? Maybe make
> several ASD files, one similar to the current swank.asd that just makes
> swank-loader available, and another that also loads a file that does
> (swank-loader:load-swank) ?  

I reverted that change and swank-loader now loads the rest as before.

> Any thoughts?

We wanted some way to customize the fasl directory, so I had separated
the loading of the loader and the loading of the rest.  The drawback
of that approach was that swank-loader:load-swank had to be called
explicitly to pass in the customized parameters and that's
inconvenient for those who don't need the customization (i.e. most
people).  So, I reverted that part.

The new way to customize the fasl directory is to set the variable
swank-loader:*fasl-directory* before loading swank-loader.  The
drawback of this variant is that the swank-loader package must exist
(or must be created) before the variable can be set.  I think this is
the better tradeoff because most users don't need the customization
and only the others have to pay the price for more flexibility.

Helmut.