Re: SLY, a fork of SLY

I watched the video. It’s not immediately obvious what’s new here. Nor is it obvious why any nifty features (inspector, trace statistics, etc…) couldn’t be added to slime-contrib without a fork.

Some comments on the motivation for the fork would be helpful.

thanks,

Cyrus

On Sep 5, 2014, at 9:37 AM, João Távora <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> For some time now, I've been working on SLY, a fork of SLIME. I believe
> it is ready to go live now. There's a screencast at
> 
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqWkVvubnSI
> 
> and the project page lives at github
> 
>   http://github.com/capitaomorte/sly.git
> 
> SLY forked around SLIME 2.4 and is currently on-par with bugfixes in
> SLIME 2.9. It will continue to track SLIME's bugfixes.
> 
> A list of changes SLY is available in its NEWS.md file. SLY is still
> alpha for now.
> 
> I believe I have done everything right fork-wise, maintaining the
> licensing notice, crediting the original authors prominently in the
> README and in any commits cherry-picked from this project.
> 
> Nevertheless, I invite the current SLIME maintainers to double
> check-check and notify me so that I can correct any mistakes.
> 
> Thanks
> João
> 
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