On 17 December 2010 15:21, Daniel Weinreb dlw@itasoftware.com wrote:
(1) Swank is pre-loaded into the server, so if we want to get in and look around, we can run Emacs with slime, and tell slime to connect over a TCP connection. As Gail points out, you have to be careful to use the version of Slime that corresponds to the version of Swank that was pre-loaded. We do not upgrade very often so that hasn't been a problem in practice but you definitely have to do that right.
More importantly, we keep matching versions of swank and slime in our version control system. If you want to attach to a server, make sure you're using the appropriate SLIME. This way we could debug years-old production servers using obsolete versions of SWANK, if only we had any.
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