Re: Adding to Swank Load-Path

Hi,

I had the same problem as you and got suggested to use the branch of slime
called "choose-swank-loading-method":

https://github.com/slime/slime/tree/choose-swank-loading-method

You can find the old thread here:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.slime.devel/11430

It  basically gives you the possibility to use ASDF for loading
swank-related files. Works pretty well and feels clean and elegant.
I'm still hoping that one day the "choose-swank-loading-method" branch will
get merged into the master :)

Cheers,
Gaya



On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Helmut Eller <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 01 2014, Samuel Freilich wrote:
>
> [...]
> > I've seen two work-arounds, neither of them ideal:
> > 1. Put something in ~/.swank.lisp to modify swank::*load-path*.  (That
> works,
> > but requires more setup and I have to change it if I'm loading from a
> > different directory.)
> > 2. Leave out that dependency from :swank-dependencies and add a hook to
> > 'slime-connected-hook (called after slime-load-contribs) that calls
> > slime-load-file.  (That works, but is quite messy.)
> >
> > Is there a supported way for adding directories to the Swank load-path
> from
> > SLIME?
>
> No; nothing that I know of.  1. doesn't sound so bad to me.
>
> > Should define-slime-contrib have a :swank-paths parameter or
> > something?
>
> Something like
>
>  (define-slime-contrib foo
>     (:swank-dependencies (bar "/path1/bar.lisp")))
>
> that passes 'bar and "/path1/bar.lisp" to swank:swank-require would be
> easy to implement.
>
> Not sure if it's worth it, though.  Especially as some people want to
> get rid of swank:swank-require and replace everything with ASDF.
>
> Helmut
>
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