On 2011-12-06, at 12:10 AM, Attila Lendvai wrote:
dear list,
i'm a new hacker on board.
Nice to have you on board!
i'm planning to use gambit on an embedded device.
Cool!
i have many years of CL experience, but i'm open for anything good. i have quite some background with slime and been using it and hacking on it for long years, so i'd like to use it with gambit.
i've seen this mail, but noone answered: https://mercure.iro.umontreal.ca/pipermail/gambit-list/2011-August/005262.ht...
what is the status of swank-gambit?
who is the current maintainer?
As far as I know, no one is maintaining swank-gambit at the moment. James Long, Julian Scheid, and I have worked on it, but it has suffered some bit rot.
where is its official repo? i've found two, but neither seems anything like 'official', but rather a random repo on github.
https://github.com/jlongster/swank-gambit https://github.com/shortsightedsid/swank-gambit
i'm planning to invest time into making it more useful, but i don't want to waste efforts on something that has already been done, just hidden from my google skills.
any answers/hints are greatly appreciated,
It seems Scheid's repo is the latest code. But when I tried it with the latest slime I got an error concerning an unsupported coding system. I looked at the code and it is due to a change in the protocol, so I fixed it up so that at least it gives a prompt after a M-x slime-connect . The code is attached to this message.
Many of the swank protocol functions are not yet implemented. So the "user experience" might be a little rough if you are used to a full implementation of SLIME. Most of the functionality is implementable, but I don't have the time to actually do it (this is mostly because I haven't found a clear description of the swank protocol). Anyway, if you need help improving swank-gambit I can explain how to implement some of the non-trivial functionality. If you improve it, please post it on the Gambit Dumping Grounds!
Marc