[slime-devel] Re: Contrib branch: File error: Cannot open load file, slime-fuzzy

[Frank Goenninger]

Am 21.08.2007 um 12:49 schrieb Christophe Rhodes:

> Frank Goenninger <frgo at mac.com> writes:
>
>> I just updated Slime from CVS and ... it did not install the CONTRIB
>> branch.
>
> Did you ask it to install the contrib branch?  If not, why would you
> expect it to do so?

Hm - yes, now that you say it ... ;-)

>
>> Oh, yes, the contrib directory is there but it just contains
>> a CVS directory and no files.
>
> This is because of a design feature in CVS, which does not allow
> branches to have independent directories: if a directory is present in
> a branch, it must be present in all branches, including the HEAD
> branch.
>
>> Using CVS commands manually I was not
>> able to download any slime-fuzzy.* files ...
>
> "cvs update -rcontrib" will request the contrib branch.

Worked. Thx!

(And yes, I have confused myself).

Frank
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