Loading a Slime module defined with define-slime-contribs will load its slime-dependencies from anywhere in the Emacs load-path. Swank, however, has its own load-path, so modules with Swank contrib dependencies don't work if they're in a non-default location.
For example, if I have a module containing: (require 'slime)
(define-slime-contrib my-slime-module "My custom Slime module" (:swank-dependencies my-swank-module))
(provides 'my-slime-module)
Then running the following will fail if that module is anywhere other than the default SLIME directory: (require 'my-slime-module) (slime-setup '(my-slime-module))
I've seen two work-arounds, neither of them ideal: 1. 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? Should define-slime-contrib have a :swank-paths parameter or something?
Peace, -Sam