On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:36:53 -0800, Jeffrey Cunningham jeffrey@cunningham.net wrote:
On Tue Nov 21, 2006 at 08:12:44AM +0100, Edi Weitz wrote:
Does usage of plain old CVS hold back SLIME development in any way?
Many big companies have their firewalls set up to block the port CVS uses - I've been told the MSEE training their IT people get tells them to do this. That means you can't grab CVS versions of Slime behind these firewalls.
If you just want the current CVS version to /use/ SLIME, you can get it through http, of course:
http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/root.tar.gz?root=slime&view=t...
But, yes, if you actually want to work on SLIME and submit code, this might be a problem. Does anyone know how many active developers we have who are paid by their big company employers to hack SLIME during their working hours?
:)
But wait, project members use CVS via ssh, don't they? So, if the CVS port is blocked, that shouldn't be problem.
I assume I'm not alone with this problem.
Darcs just works.
For some people... :)