[slime-devel] Re: Appeal from luserland

[Alan Caulkins]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:26:34PM +0100, Marco Baringer wrote:
> Fred Gilham <gilham at csl.sri.com> writes:
> 
> > As a long time Slime fan, I am wondering if it would be possible to get
> > the slime developers to start making releases?  Right now the operating

I'd also like to voice my support for more official Slime releases -
I've been using Slime 2.0 for a while and I'd love to see some of the
recent work, but I'd feel a lot more comfortable upgrading to a release.



> who's to say upgrading from version 2.0 to 2.1 (or whatever) wouldn't
> create problems for you? i'm not trying to be a smart ass here, i'm
> just saying that it'd be no less painful to update from one version to
> another than it is to do a cvs up every now and then.

2.0 -> 2.1 might create problems for me, but those problems are more
likely to be caused by changes that are meant to be there, and hopefully
would be indicated in the release notes. HEAD is so dynamic, and I've seen
references on the list to things that are "currently broken in CVS". When
you download a point release, you know that as far as the authors know,
everything works.

Also, I've had problems finding versions of sbcl, Slime, and clsql that
all play well with each other and my code; it's easier when I can nail
down a definite version number instead of trying to deal with a moving
target.

I know I'm on a devel list talking about an end-user issue, but frequent
releases would enable me and other "frequent user, rare contributers"
to stay more current with the latest code. I would feel more inclined
to investigate problems and submit patches if I knew I was working on
something that was stable, but close to HEAD.

-A

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