Christophe Rhodes csr21@cam.ac.uk writes:
Andreas Fuchs asf@boinkor.net writes:
I'm not entirely sure which of SBCL or SLIME needs to be fixed. Either SBCL should start including :sb-futex on its *feature* list again (or some other feature saying that threads are non-broken on this lisp build), or SLIME should stop checking for :sb-futex (which will break on SBCLs older than 0.8.21).
If it's possible given the time constraints and cvs tagging activity, I'd be happy if the preferred-communication-style checked only :sb-thread, and if the slime release notes for 1.2 required an sbcl of 0.8.21 or later.
Does :sb-thread reasonably imply a working threads implementation? My only concern is that if SBCL on some platforms would have :sb-thread by default but not a reliable implementation, i.e. if SLIME suddenly starts using threads by default on platforms where it shouldn't.