slime on github

[Paul Bowyer]

On 01/11/2014 01:10 PM, João Távora wrote:
> Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com> writes:
>
>> On 01/10/2014 03:26 PM, João Távora wrote:
>>> Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com> writes:
>>>>> Care to describe them? I'd be very insterested.
>> This morning, I downloaded the latest slime from github. I did the
>> "make ensure_ert", "make clean" and "make compile" thing, but I did
>> not notice cl-lib.el before doing "make compile". Since it seemed to
>> ...
> "ensure_ert" doesn't pull in cl-lib, it pulls in ert. "ensure_cl_lib"
> does pulls in cl-lib.el and the "compile" target depends on
> "ensure_cl_lib", which I think explains your observations.
>
> Anyway I'm starting to think we shold bundle cl-lib.el (and ert.el as
> well for good measure). Travis CI fails lately because the site it
> downlaods cl-lib.el from is down.
>
> The only thing that bugs me is the growing list of "bundled" third party
> files at to plevel. Helmut, can we move these to a new "vendor" dir?
> Maybe not hyperspec.el, unless we:
>
> * add "vendor" directly to the load-path as well.
>
> * we complicate the non-autoload installation recipe. The autoload file
>    can set the hyperspec autoload to "vendor/hyperspec".
>
> I prefer the second.
>
>> Is it now OK to run slime without loading cl-lib.el or is it still
>> necessary to load it? I could not determine a difference when starting
>> slime without and with it.
> On Emacs 23 it has to either be loaded or be in your load-path. Emacs's
> `require' takes care of the rest.
>
>> I also took a quick look at the changes in the slime manual and notice
>> one small typo
>> "git diff HEAD origin/master ChangeLo" in "2.2.2 Git incantations" but
>> otherwise it seemed OK in my cursory examination.
> OK.
>
>> I experimented some more by starting slime with/without loading
>> cl-lib.el and I noticed some more messages that were not dependent on
>> the loading of cl-lib.el.
>>
>> error in process filter: ad-Orig-slime-repl-emit: Text is read-only
>> error in process filter: Text is read-only
>>
>> The messages showed whether or not I loaded cl-lib.el, but I didn't
>> notice any ill effects when I used some of the slime menu commands.
> Funny. `slime-repl-emit' doesn't have any advice set. Maybe you do so in
> your ~/.emacs? Can you reproduce this with emacs -Q and paste the
> reproduction recipe here?
I tried emacs -Q and there were no error messages.
They only occur after I start slime using M-x slime, which I was unable 
to do after opening emacs with -Q.
It must be something related to my .emacs file. I'll try to track it down.
>
> João
>