* Tobias C. Rittweiler [2007-08-25 18:41+0200] writes:
Shouldn't people who make changes to Slime try to introduce as little breakage as possible, including the contribs? (I.e. at least that loading everything should introduce no obvious regression.)
Well, contribs are second class citizens. If a contrib breaks it's the burden of the contrib author/maintainer to fix that. I don't expect that we will intentionally break contribs or make it needlessly difficult to fix them, but contribs shouldn't be our primary concern.
I'd still like to see swank.lisp split into swank-utils.lisp for exactly that purpose. The point of swank-utils.list is that it should contain shared functionality between core and contribs (and among the contribs themselves). Because it's supposed to contain _well abstracted_, generic utility functionalities, people are pressured to come up with, and to use abstractions in their code.
Yeah, you said that more than once. It's getting boring.
Helmut.