[slime-devel] Re: swank version check

[Marco Baringer]

Marco Baringer <mb at bese.it> writes:

> 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?

what about just using the first line of ChangeLog? though this gets
updated more often than the wire protocl changes it doesn't require
any extra work on the part of slime contcributors. what's worse?
spurious protocol mismatch errors or having to update slime too often?

-- 
-Marco
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