Re: Slime

[Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>]

* Chong Yidong [2010-07-02 13:35] writes:

> Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> writes:
>
>> + Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
>>
>>> (Why is [slime] not in Emacs?  Have people already considered
>>> whether to install it?)
>>
>> Perhaps because it is so closely integrated with the swank backend?
>> You would have to include both for it to make sense including slime.
>> Note that the swank protocol is still evolving, so at the present time
>> distributing the slime front end separately from the swank backend
>> seems to make little sense.
>
> I am interested in distributing SLIME as a package for Emacs 24 (it's
> already on the tromey.com package archive).  However, although Eric
> Marsden and Helmut Eller have copyright assignments, I don't know the
> list of other contributors.  (Helmut, could you let me know?)

It's a very long list (more than 100 people):
http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/Credits.html#Credits

Of course, most contributed only a few lines.

Helmut