Re: SLY, a fork of SLY

On Sun, Sep 07 2014, João Távora wrote:

[..,]
> My reticence to this particular renaming stems from the fact that the
> RPC protocol between Emacs and the Lisp process is itself based on the
> identifier "swank" *and* on its package-designating quality. This is an
> example of what goes on the > wire
>
>    (:emacs-rex (swank:connection-info) nil t 1)
>
> If I blindly rename "swank-">"slynk" in all symbols, packages and parts
> of symbols, as is being requested, SLY will be immediately locked out of
> the existing communication protocol.

In swank-rpc.lisp is a function SIMPLE-READ that can be used to parse
the string that comes from the wire.  You could replace the call to
INTERN there with something that splits the string at the #\: and then
map "SWANK" or other package qualifiers to your own packages.  Doesn't
sound so hard and it would not need any conflicting package nicknames.

Helmut