[Slime-devel] SLY, a fork of SLY

[Zach Beane]

joaotavora at gmail.com writes:

> Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> writes:
>> joaotavora at gmail.com (João Távora) writes:
>>
>>> Helmut Eller <eller.helmut at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Yes, I do: please use something different than Slime and Swank as part
>>>> of symbol names, package names, or file names.
>>>
>>> Sorry, no, unless you provide an argument.
>>
>> I'd like to be able to load both of them at the same time without
>> conflicts.
>
> OK, that is an argument.
>
> I see SLIME as an application/tool, not as a library, so it doens't make
> any sense to me. But perhaps a SWANK server running standalone in an
> application can be viewed as a library. Then again, it's tricky, why
> would developers need to place two similar separate debugging tools in
> their applications?
>
> Do you really see this as an impediment to trying out SLY? SLY is alpha
> right now (as noted before) and I mostly need feedback. When I get some
> feedback I will consider the ability to load both SLY and SWANK servers
> in the same Lisp. I probably won't release sly until the time Emacs 24.4
> officially comes out (it's in pretest right now)

I'd like to try out sly. I'd like sly not to make it impossible to load
swank and slime afterwards. A conflicting system file and conflicting
emacs symbol names are an impediment to that.

I think slynk is a fine name for the CL-side of sly.

Zach