Re: [slime-devel] SLIME security patch

On Sun, 1 May 2005 02:26:27 +0100, mdw@nsict.org (Mark Wooding) wrote:

This fix isn't ideal: I suspect there will be problems from a
mismatch between Emacs's idea of home directory (usually the
HOME environment variable) and the Common Lisp system's
USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME.  It seems right on Unix; I've no idea
what it'll do on any other system.  Besides, `.slime-secret'
seems a poor filename for Windows, even though it will work.

The problem is that after upgrading SLIME doesn't work at all on Windows which doesn't make this a very entertaining patch.

I'd suggest to at least remove the #+unix read-time conditional so the name `.slime-secret' will be used (which I've done to my local copy) - or find a better way to fix it. Globally breaking SLIME for all Windows users is probably not the way to go.

Cheers, Edi.