I agree with Steven on this. As one who uses emacs and SLIME for both common lisp and clojure, I'd like to be able to use the current SLIME HEAD for clojure development work. I consider the fact that swank-clojure and the SLIME HEAD don't play nicely with each other to be a deficiency of swank-clojure. It may be that the "right" fix is to fix SLIME, but I see recommending a different mechanism of installing SLIME (via ELPA) as the fix to be an ugly hack. My personal hack-fix-of-choice is to check out version 3b3f604c396f0c5ceb8bc5a13fa41061bcc96184 from the slime git repo. It's true that this is fundamentally no better than what ELPA is doing, but at least I know what version of SLIME i need to make things work. It would be great if swank-clojure and/or slime were fixed so that the SLIME HEAD worked with swank-clojure.
I don't want to have to use ELPA, or maven, or some other configuration management thing to get basic tools like an editing environment for the language up and running. Perhaps I should just bite the bullet and use the crazy configuration/package management things that the clojure community seems so enamored of (ELPA, maven, leiningen, etc...), but in the way I'm used to doing things, nothing more than the source code and a fairly simple system definition tool (like ASDF) are enough to get things done. It's not too say that there's room for improvement, but I like it when simple tools get the job done and I don't need to rely on a bunch of shell scripts, to have to modify classpaths, restart JVMs, etc... to get the code I want loaded. Perhaps I'm just ignorant of the proper clojure-y way to do things, so I'll hop off my soapbox now. cyrus On Jan 7, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Steven E. Harris wrote: > Phil Hagelberg <p...@hagelb.org> writes: > >> Could you try installing SLIME via ELPA as recommended in the >> swank-clojure readme? > > That will be a project I'll have to defer until the weekend, as I've > never used ELPA. I use the CVS SLIME almost daily for Common Lisp work, > so I'm reluctant to give it up. Also, it's not a tenable situation to > fork SLIME for Clojure support. > >> CVS head is known to have introduced incompatibilities with Clojure. > > Is the git repository at git://git.boinkor.net/slime.git just tracking > the CVS repository, or is that the same as the ELPA-hosted one? I did > try all of this with the git version and found the exact same behavior > as with the CVS version. > > -- > Steven E. Harris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
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