On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:58:45 +0200, Luke Gorrie wrote:
If the ALU can do it then so can we :-). It would be nice to get some feedback to understand which backends are getting the most/least usage and which ones are flaky.
So if you are an active SLIME user and you have a moment then please reply to this mail (send the reply to the list).
Questions:
Which Lisp versions do you use SLIME with?
Mostly SBCL & CMUCL, a little bit of CLISP.
Which Emacs versions?
Emacs 21.3.1. I was recently a hardcore XEmacs user, but I've moved back to Emacs.
How well does SLIME work for you?
I think it's great. It has *significantly* enhanced my usage and enjoyment of Common Lisp over the past year.
What bugs (reproducible or otherwise) or missing features annoy you?
Bugs: none that I can think of. Daily CVS seems to work pretty well.
Missing features:
Inspector navigation seems a little off, could be a little better, one of the wish items mentioned in Helmut's wish list.
I'd like to see viewing source from a stack frame try and go to the actual line of source code, instead of just the function.
I think a stepper like the Emacs Lisp debugger or like gdb-mode would be pretty cool. I realize there's a lot of challenges to doing nice stepping in Lisp. I think this would help newbies get a better feel for the language, especially since it's a common feature in the IDEs they come from.
Is there some packaging system (e.g. Debian) that you would like to see SLIME 1.0 bundled with? If so, do you know how to coordinate this?
I think getting it apt-gettable via Debian and Fedora (yum) would be really useful. Maybe for the 1.0 release. Ultimately, I just download it from the daily CVS whenever I use it. That's pretty easy to do.
If you said anything negative above then please say something nice here to make us feel good:
I didn't say anything negative, but I can't emphasize how important I think SLIME is to the community as a whole and to it's future growth. I think it is an incredible tool and I can't imagine not using it. It is light years ahead of ILISP, for example.
Kilo-kudos to all of you! (ok, mega-kudos!)