Luke Gorrie luke@bluetail.com writes:
Which Lisp versions do you use SLIME with?
Until very recently weeks ago, my main Lisp was cmucl 18e, but I recently spent the $$$ to buy Lispworks for Windows Pro (v4.3.7).
Which Emacs versions?
GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (on OpenBSD v3.2)
How well does SLIME work for you?
Well, it worked flawlessly for me on cmucl, but I have never been able to get it work properly with Lispworks. See below.
What bugs (reproducible or otherwise) or missing features annoy you?
I run Lispworks on WinXP and Emacs on my OpenBSD box. SLIME occassionally provokes an error: The Lispworks debugger says 'Error in thread "control-thread"', "PROCESS-WAIT called when scheduling not allowed".
Note that I run Lispworks on Windows XP and Emacs on my OpenBSD box. I strongly suspect that the problem is related to Lispworks multiprocessing. To start SLIME I defined
(defun init-slime () (setf swank::*loopback-interface* "192.168.2.16") ; Windows XP IP addr (setf swank::*use-dedicated-output-stream* nil) (swank:create-swank-server 4005 swank::*communication-style* #'swank::simple-announce-function t))
which I call to setup the swank server. After that, M-x slime-connect. This will work for a while, but eventually it dies.
I have not researched this extensively, and suspect I'm overlooking something fundamental somewhere, but since you ask, I thought I'd report the problem (hoping for a resolution, of course - my fingers strongly prefer Emacs to the Lispworks IDE for program editing!).
Is there some packaging system (e.g. Debian) that you would like to see SLIME 1.0 bundled with? If so, do you know how to coordinate this?
Not really - I have had no problems with the CVS access.
If you said anything negative above then please say something nice here to make us feel good:
I have found SLIME to be very impressive indeed. Thanks guys!
-Klaus.