hi,
i have a new slime feature but i'm debating whethere it's actually useful as part of standard slime or just bloat:
we have a new variable swank:*motd-pathname* which, when not NIL, is assumed to name a ChangeLog formated file. When we connect slime to swank this file is read and the entries in the last N days are given to slime to be inserted into the repl before the prompt and after the banner.
The idea behind this variable is tha a group of programmers would use it to communicate or remind themselves about development related changes (i'm thinking stuff like changes to default startup procedures, moving databases, api changes, test suite results, etc.).
so, would this actually be useful or is it just bloat? (including the ChangeLog parser it's around 80 lines of code).