Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll lisp@arrakis.es writes:

Hi,

Hello Juan,

my name is Juanjo Garcia-Ripoll and I am the current maintainer of a common-lisp implementation called ECL (http://ecls.sf.net). This is a portable environment based on a C backend that can use a C/C++ compiler for compiling lisp code, and also contains a standalone bytecodes compiler and interpreter.

In the last weeks there has been a lot of contributions to our project (FFI, a port of BSD sockets, better MOP compliance, Gray streams, etc) that have allowed me to produce a minimal port of Slime.

that's great to hear!

The port is available at http://ecls.sf.net/slime-patches.zip

This zip file contains only the loader and a patch to the loader. Apparently both old versions.

I would like to ask the developers of Slime to commit these patches and also, if possible, to give me CVS access for future improvements.

I didn't commit the patches because the current CVS version of the loader looks quite different.

I asked the common-lisp.net admins to give you write permissions. You can then commit anything that's needed yourself.

There aren't to many fixed rules for SLIME developers, but a few hints are written down in our HACKING file. Basically we assume that people are competent enough write good code. If somebody sees a better way to do something, he is encouraged to commit his ideas, and nobody should be upset if some code gets rewritten.

I haven't tried the current version of ECL, but last time I did, it had a few gaps, which made it difficult to compile the portable bits of SLIME. I hope these gaps are closed now and that we need no #+ecl reader conditionals in swank.lisp.

Helmut.