[slime-devel] SLIME protocol version vs SWANK protocol version

[Helmut Eller]

* Hugo Duncan [2011-05-18 17:22] writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing a swank server for clojure, and for various reasons,
> not least of which the frequent updates to SLIME, the versions of
> slime.el used to connect are usually somewhat old.
>
> The clojure swank server could easily support multiple versions of the
> slime protocol, making it less painful to set up for the many emacs
> newbies in the clojure world, but to do so would require knowledge of the
> slime protocol version implemented in slime.el.
>
> Would a change in the swank:connection-info message to include
> slime-protocol-version be a possibility?
>
>       (swank:connection-info "20110501")
>
> This obviously doesn't allow retroactive support of old slime versions,
> but would provide a path to doing so in the future.

Sounds reasonable.  Maybe we should rename the first event and call it
(swank:configure :version "20110501").  Possibly adding more parameters,
like :encoding, in the future.  Would that be OK?

Helmut