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

[Marco Baringer]

"Geo Carncross" <geocar at gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

that would have the same effect as deleting the package as far as
madhu's problem goes.

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