Cyrus Harmon ch-slime@bobobeach.com writes:
Well the video is less than 4 minutes long and a only brief tour. I have been working on this 6+ months and hundreds of commits.
That’s not too surprising.
Precisely, it's not suprising that I can't sum up 6 months of work in a 4 minute demo.
While I personally disagree with you, the goal *is* to make SLY feel familiar to SLIME users, which I think is a fantastic program.
I’m not sure how you can disagree that the changes between SLY and slime are not readily apparent from watching the video. You may be intimately familiar with the differences, but your enumerating some of them would certainly be helpful to folks like me.
This is futile and of course it's obvious I can't disagree with your personal perception. I disagree that SLY doens't bring anything new.
If that’s an either/or, I’ll take the better description of the features before I try it. Thanks.
Have you seed the NEWS.md file? It's a bit sketchy as was the screencast, but it might be what you want. Otherwise, suit yourelf.
Remember that to rewrite a program better is the sincerest form of code appreciation. When you can see a way to rewrite a part of SLIME better, please do so!
I don’t disagree with the idea of forking, but there needs to be some rationale for the fork. So far I’ve seen defense of the act of forking but neither a description of the motivation for the fork nor a summary of the benefits to the user for using the forked version.
I've given you an answer: I would not find the freedom to make these changes to SLIME. What is hard to understand there? Mind you, if maintained a 10+ old program, I would not give such vast freedom away. But fortunately, free software does give me that freedom.
João