The problem that I am seeing with access to SLIME's CVS repository appears to be in the
(automatically generated?) compressed tar file available from SLIME's web site, too.
http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/snapshots/slime-current.tgz
Extracting the files from this .tgz creates a directory named 'slime-2010-01-27'.
$ cd slime-2010-01-27
No recent changes (since Jan. 19) can be found in the extracted files:
$ head ChangeLog
2010-01-19 Stas Boukarev stassats@gmail.com
* swank-rpc.lisp (:swank-rpc): (:use :cl), SBCL doesn't use it by default.
2010-01-19 Terje Norderhaug terje@in-progress.com
* Refactorized parts of slime.lisp into a new swank-rpc module.
2010-01-14 Stas Boukarev stassats@gmail.com
$ /bin/grep 'defparameter *validate-input' swank-rpc.lisp (defparameter *validate-input* NIL
Is the CVS repository at common-lisp.net out of sync with the maintainers' repository?