[Snow-devel] Slime or other framework for developing Snow

[Matus Kmit]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Matus Kmit <simply.nitaai at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Matus Kmit <simply.nitaai at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> i've tried to launch snow with a newer version of ABCL (v0.25), but
>>> got the following exception:
>>>
>>> Exception in thread "main"
>>> org.armedbear.lisp.Interpreter$UnhandledCondition: Unhandled lisp
>>> condition: The symbol "VARIABLE-
>>> INFORMATION" was not found in package SYS.
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.Interpreter$1.execute(Interpreter.java:561)
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:653)
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.Primitives$pf_apply.execute(Primitives.java:2800)
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:801)
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:653)
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.debug_6.execute(debug.lisp:105)
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.CompiledClosure.execute(CompiledClosure.java:124)
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:813)
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:670)
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.debug_7.execute(debug.lisp:114)
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.Symbol.execute(Symbol.java:790)
>>>        at org.armedbear.lisp.LispThread.execute(LispThread.java:636)
>>>
>>> i read in your tutorial that snow is using a modified version of ABCL.
>>> The version i was trying, was the ordinary one built from sources
>>> downloaded from ABCL website.
>>
>> Right, it was using a modified abcl, but sometime after the 0.3
>> release I made it work with standard ABCL. Unfortunately, I forgot to
>> make a new release afterwards.
>> Now I just released version 0.3.1 that also fixes the problem with
>> closing the repl, and includes all the post-0.3 stuff that was on
>> trunk (mainly bug fixes and small improvements, but one API change:
>> with-widget is now called simply widget). I tested it with the latest
>> abcl from trunk but it should also work with 0.25 (besides, 0.26 is
>> not far away I think).
>
> Great, thank You!
>
> i just tried that out on windows. No-gui-repl option works now, but if
> there is some error in REPL, it does not provide Lisp-like restart
> options, but throws a Java Exception instead and leaves snow repl
> altogether.
>
> i tried with: (make-var x)
>

tried the same on linux -> works OK. it seems to be only a windows issue...

greetings,
matus