Paul Bowyer pbowyer@olynet.com writes:
I've recently become aware the slime is now on github, so I downloaded and installed a copy. It ran, but there is a window in my copy of emacs-23.4.1 filled with warnings related to ert.el which indicate that it can't be found.
A list of the warnings: Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test enclosing-context.1 Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test find-local-definitions.1
These are just warnings about slime's self-tests. You needn't worry about them. Actually, you wouldn't see them if 'slime-tests.el' weren't loaded, but it is everytime you load a contrib for normal usage (it shouldn't be so and this will be fixed).
I looked around for a copy of ert.el and ert-x.el and I found a couple of files that looked reasonable, but they won't load so I wonder if you know how to get those files that are compatible with emacs-23.4.1?
In the current, "make ensure_ert" should make sure they are downloaded. "make clean" and "make compile" should do the rest. In the future they will probably be bundled.
The github copy of slime seems to load OK, but I haven't really tried using it for development with the warnings I was getting.
The new developments are ambitious and there will be instability with the trunk. To be on the safe side clone the SLIME_2 tag for now. Before long, we will release a version that fixes these ert-related issues and possibly bundles