Moving to GitHub and cl-lib

Raymond Toy toy.raymond at gmail.com
Wed Jan 8 19:49:09 UTC 2014


>>>>> "Helmut" == Helmut Eller <eller.helmut at gmail.com> writes:

    Helmut> On Tue, Jan 07 2014, Raymond Toy wrote:
    >> João> see: keep using slime!
    >> 
    >> I will.  Would you accept a patch to fix the test issues I've
    >> uncovered?  My current hack is too gross, but I can try to come up
    >> with something cleaner.  Otherwise, continuing to use git slime will
    >> be a pain to maintain.  I normally only update slime when quicklisp
    >> does.

    Helmut> I also vote for dropping XEmacs compatibility.

    Helmut> Ray, you are the CMUCL maintainer and I certainly would like to provide
    Helmut> you a working SLIME for that.  But apparently you are the last XEmacs
    Helmut> user.  That's a very small minority.

Perhaps the last XEmacs + slime user, but definitely not the last (of
the few?) XEmacs users.

    Helmut> Overall, I think it's wiser and fairer to spend our time on things other
    Helmut> than XEmacs.

I certainly don't want to hold up slime work.  I doubt I use slime to
it's fullest either.

Perhaps this is the final straw....

Ray




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