[Slime-devel] SLY, a fork of SLY

[Zach Beane]

joaotavora at gmail.com writes:

> Helmut Eller <eller.helmut at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 05 2014, João Távora wrote:
>>
>>> I believe I have done everything right fork-wise,
>>
>> The most important thing for a proper fork is to use a different name.
>> Please use something different than Slime and Swank.
>
> The project is called SLY. Sorry the subject is completely botched it
> should read "SLY, a fork of SLIME."
>
> There is a file swank.lisp in the SLY project and it starts up a server
> that SLY connects to (SLIME can also connect to it, to a smaller
> degree). There is also a swank and package many many symbols are named
> exactly like in SLIME. I hope you don't expect me to rename all these.

If at some point you'd like SLY to be available via Quicklisp, swank.asd
at least would need a new name, to avoid conflicts with slime's
swank.asd.

Zach