On Fri, Aug 01 2014, Samuel Freilich wrote:
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I've seen two work-arounds, neither of them ideal:
- Put something in ~/.swank.lisp to modify swank::*load-path*. (That works,
but requires more setup and I have to change it if I'm loading from a different directory.) 2. Leave out that dependency from :swank-dependencies and add a hook to 'slime-connected-hook (called after slime-load-contribs) that calls slime-load-file. (That works, but is quite messy.)
Is there a supported way for adding directories to the Swank load-path from SLIME?
No; nothing that I know of. 1. doesn't sound so bad to me.
Should define-slime-contrib have a :swank-paths parameter or something?
Something like
(define-slime-contrib foo (:swank-dependencies (bar "/path1/bar.lisp")))
that passes 'bar and "/path1/bar.lisp" to swank:swank-require would be easy to implement.
Not sure if it's worth it, though. Especially as some people want to get rid of swank:swank-require and replace everything with ASDF.
Helmut