[GBBopen-developer] SWANK cannot load when using initiate.lisp

[Dan Corkill]

> I... I just think *AFTER-INIT-HOOK* is a internal symbol. With  
> following changes, everything seems OK:

Actually, there is a later GBBopen commit (r359) that addressed this 
differently.  However, more is needed to actually be able to use SLIME (and 
the extended GBBopen REPL with it) with CCL.

The problem is that the :swank package is already created (and apparently 
empty) in the latest CCL.  This disables SLIME loading in the latest SLIME 
(a change similar to what effected GBBopen's SLIME interface).  The current 
work-around is to check for and delete the :swank package in your CCL 
initializations (which must run prior to the Swank startup done from 
SLIME/Emacs).

If you are using a ccl-init.lisp file (and shared-init.lisp) as per the 
GBBopen tutorial, then the following ccl-init.lisp file should work:

(in-package :cl-user)

(let ((swank-package (find-package ':swank)))
   (when swank-package (delete-package swank-package)))

(let ((defaults *load-truename*))
   (load (make-pathname
          :name "shared-init"
          :type "lisp"
          :defaults defaults)))

Note that we plan to improve our latest extended-REPL support under SLIME 
in the next day or so (for all you SLIMErs)...



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