[slime-devel] Re: make swank safe if loaded into an image with an older version of swank in the image

[Geo Carncross]

On Feb 4, 2008 11:04 AM, Marco Baringer <mb at bese.it> wrote:
> well, the entire point of the patch is remove defvars from the swank
> package. if you have an older slime in an image and attempt to load a
> newer slime and the defvars don't get reset you'll a totally broken
> slime and very confusing error messages.

What about using (do-symbols (p ...) (makunbound p)) if the loading
version is different than the in-image version?