On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 04:13 -0500, Steve Salkin wrote:
Helmut Eller wrote:
Denis Bueno dbueno@gmail.com writes:
(slime-repl-update-banner): Remove animation stuff.(slime-startup-animation): Deleted.Why oh why was this deleted? This feature gave me warm and fuzzy feelings at the start of every lisp hacking session! Can it at least be optionally enabled?
Because it takes ages (~2 sec) to display and needlessly complicates the code. SLIME's startup sequence is already long and hairy enough.
As a slime user, I always found the animation a playful and cheerful thing, which befits the nature of Lisp programming. I really think it's a shame to see it go.
Of course I speak as a user and not a slime developer - I have no idea how it complicated matters. I wouldn't ask slime developers to preserve something that's arguably a gimmick if it makes things more difficult for them. But if the difficulty presented is small, I'd ask that you reconsider.
I second that. Nothing says "This is a serious, full-featured IDE" to pseudo-programmer types than an impressive startup animation. And how am I supposed to dumb down how "cool" slime is to non-programmers if I can't show them the funky animation? But as Steve said, if it's a maintenance burden, dump it.