[slime-devel] cutting up slime.el

[Gary King]

I like Attila's idea; small is beautiful.


On Feb 1, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Attila Lendvai wrote:

> dear list,
>
> have anybody ever tought of cutting up slime.el into more files?
> especially cutting out the framework'ey and compatibility bits into a
> file that can be loaded at the head of slime.el. but also other
> sections could be cut out, like fuzzy completion, sldb, etc.
>
> i may not be aware of something, but i think it's not reasonable that
> slime.el is a single 450k file.
>
> my actual problem is that Helmut moved some annoying compatibility
> definitions out of the way (to the end of the file) but i'm using some
> of them in the darcs repo while loading. i've moved these back to the
> head of the file there, but such changes are moving the branches
> further away.
>
> if they were in slime-compatibility.el or a bigger slime-utils.el then
> it could be loaded easily at the top of slime.el.
>
> any opinions?
>
> -- 
> - attila
>
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