Re: Slime

[Chong Yidong]

Harald Hanche-Olsen <address@hidden> writes:

> + Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:
>
>> (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?)