[Slime-devel] SLY, a fork of SLY

[João Távora]

Zach,

OK, thanks for the heads up

I will try to make SLY installable via Emac's built-in mechanism
basically "M-x package-install RET sly RET"

João

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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João Távora