Re: [Sbcl-devel] Heads up: 1.0.18.10 affects SLIME

[Tobias C. R. <tc...@fr...>]

Sidney Markowitz <si...@si...> writes:

> Richard M Kreuter wrote, On 4/7/08 8:14 AM:
> > For those of you on the bleeding edge, SBCL 1.0.18.10 makes a change
> > that affects SLIME.  The patch is submitted to slime-devel in case you
> > need it now:
> > 
> > http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2008-July/007392.html
>
> If you aren't running the latest SLIME from their cvs (e.g., I use 
> Aquamacs which ships with SLIME 2.0 pre-installed) the patch will not 
> work because swank-backend::sbcl-with-symbol is not defined. If you 
> don't want to deal with upgrading the entire SLIME, you can kludge it 
> easily by making the following substitutions in the patch:

Slime 2.0 is very old. So I recommend for anyone who is still using that
version to better take the effort and update to CVS. Especially if you
ever run into trouble and need support.

  -T.