Brian Mastenbrook bmastenb@cs.indiana.edu writes:
Out of curiosity, why does there still seem to be no inclination to release? I just had a good friend of mine doubt whether SLIME was stable enough to use on the basis of it only being available via CVS. Most open source projects would have a tarball up by now; not having one is the exception and will lead people to think that we're in a state such that it's not usable yet.
But we have a tarball :-) http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/cvs_root.tar.gz?tarball=1&cvs...
I know fetching from CVS is easy, but that's not the point here. The fact that there has been no release yet send the wrong message, I think.
Today we received bugreports like "CLISP hangs on startup", "SBCL dies with SIGBUS", "can't set FPU modes". Desn't seem like SLIME is ready for release and making a tarball will not help us getting there.
Helmut.