[slime-devel] Re: Missing features in latest CVS

[Maciej Katafiasz]

Den Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:33:18 +0100 skrev Helmut Eller:

>> - There are no presentations in SLDB backtraces. I find presentations
>> immensely useful for inspecting backtraces, and I miss them a lot. I do
>> get presentations everywhere else, including streams, but not in the
>> debugger
> 
> A part of the functionality for presentation can achieved with ordinary
> commands.  The other part was removed.
> 
> I removed presentations from the debugger and I won't put them back.

Could you elaborate on that decision, your rationale and intended 
replacements? Being able to inspect the actual parameters in a backtrace 
scores about 12 on a 1-10 usefulness scale, losing it is a huge hit. 
Could you move it to a contrib package instead?

Cheers,
Maciej