[slime-devel] Re: SLIME Committers

[Edi Weitz]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:36:53 -0800, Jeffrey Cunningham <jeffrey at cunningham.net> wrote:

> On Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 08:12:44AM +0100, Edi Weitz wrote:
>> 
>> Does usage of plain old CVS hold back SLIME development in any way?
>> 
> Many big companies have their firewalls set up to block the port CVS
> uses - I've been told the MSEE training their IT people get tells
> them to do this. That means you can't grab CVS versions of Slime
> behind these firewalls.

If you just want the current CVS version to /use/ SLIME, you can get
it through http, of course:

  http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/root.tar.gz?root=slime&view=tar

But, yes, if you actually want to work on SLIME and submit code, this
might be a problem.  Does anyone know how many active developers we
have who are paid by their big company employers to hack SLIME during
their working hours?

:)

But wait, project members use CVS via ssh, don't they?  So, if the CVS
port is blocked, that shouldn't be problem.

> I assume I'm not alone with this problem.
>
> Darcs just works.

For some people... :)