[slime-devel] Re: slime startup with clbuild's START_SLIME_USING_CORE

[Helmut Eller]

* David Lichteblau [2008-02-25 14:44+0100] writes:

> Quoting Helmut Eller (heller at common-lisp.net):
> [...]
>> Having separate compile, load, and init operations would probably be
>> TRT.  I don't know if ASDF supports that directly.
>
> When another system depends on swank just in order to use some of the
> functions in the swank package, isn't it the right thing to skip
> initialization completely (hence postponing it until the emacs side
> starts up)?
>
> Assuming that is the right approach, should SWANK::INIT be skipped
> entirely or only the after-init-hook?

User init files should probably also be skipped.

> Here is a patch skipping just the hook, which is enough to solve the
> issue with *globally-redirect-io*.

I committed something along these line.  I named the parameter :setup
instead of :run-hooks.  INIT is now a rather confusing name for this
function :-)

Helmut.