[slime-devel] swank version check

[Nathan Bird]

Marco Baringer wrote:
> hi,
>
>   i'm thinking about adding a version check when connecting to a swank
>   server to ensure that slime.el and swank.lisp are in-synch. this
>   would remove the, admitedly rare, errors whan the two are out of
>   synch (this can happen when running a local slime against a remote
>   lisp or when swank has be built into the image and isn't reloaded
>   each time the lisp is started). however this would require that
>   everytime a change is commited people must remeber to update the
>   version number. is this worth the overhead?
>
>   
I have run into errors from this on a few occasions. However a lot of
the time the two can be a little bit out of sync and never cause
problems... maybe just a warning?

More complex idea: Code that compares major version (updated whenever
there is a release), and additionally compare cvs version numbers if the
cvs folder exists? Is that an easy question to answer with cvs?