[slime-devel] Re: CLISP SLIME implementation breaks in CVS

[funkyj at gmail.com]

I have since given another 30 minutes to wrestling with the SLIME
install and this time I appear to have won.  Here is the trap I finally
overcame:

(1) download the 1.2.1 and gave it a try with cygwin clisp 2.35.
    it failed.
(2) followed the "get the latest from CVS" advice.  That failed.
(3) tried "get the FAIRLY-STABLE" tagged version.  That failed.

I went back to the CVS HEAD version did one extra step and voila, it
worked.  Can you guess what that extra step was?

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Apparently you need to delete the "~/.slime/" directory if you change
versions of slime.

It would be nice if slime/emacs could notice that I'm getting ALL my
slime files (.lisp and .el) from a different directory than last time
and either blow away the old .slime/ directory or perhaps ask me if I
want to do this.

Alternatively, slime.info, PROBLEMS or README might mention this.

What pushed me to give SLIME a try again was that I had a problem with
ILISP and when I went looking for the ILISP community it looked like it
has been dead since 2002 or 2003 :^).

Cheers,
  --jfc