[slim-vim] Slim-vim, future and milestones.

[Larry Clapp]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:12:35AM -0700, Brad Beveridge wrote:
> These pages really need to be added to and cleaned up.  The Perl
> page needs to be marked historic and have obvious links added to a
> new page describing Slim-vim.  Slim-vim really needs a new page that
> is structured similarly to the old Perl page, but with updated
> information.
> Also, we need to google for things like "vim lisp" "vim slime" and
> change the top hits to include references to Slim-vim, or contact
> maintainers of "Using Lisp with Vim" style pages and make them aware
> of us.  Any volunteers? :)

I can take a look at both of these.  Any else, of course, is welcome,
too.

> This might sound ambitious, but I would like to see a Slim-vim alpha
> release by the end of July, and a beta release by the end of August.
> This is actually doable, I'm making good progress and we have
> reference code in the form of existing Slime, and we have a very
> well defined feature set.  I think that it might be time to start
> getting non-code things (documentation, googleability) prepped for
> the end of July, and I'd like to generate a bit of excitement for
> this project.  I don't really want to "announce" to CLL until we
> reach a solid alpha, but I would like to tell the Gardeners about
> Slim-vim at the start of July (pre-alpha) and try to get some more
> users and testers.
> 
> What do you guys think?  How many people are willing to:
> 1) Use Slim-vim in its pre-alpha form, ie right now and for another
> 5/6 weeks? (Note, I expect that I'll be making big steps in
> functionality from here on out, stuff should get better every day)
> 2) Use Slim-vim in alpha?  We ought to be almost functionally
> complete, I'd guess 80-90% of features, with the everyday use
> features all done.  There will still be bugs.

I'll volunteer for both.

> End of July : Announce Alpha level code to CL-Gardeners, CLL and
> anybody who will listen.  I'd like us to be first page Google hits
> by end of July for "vim lisp".  Binary builds of Vim+ECL for major
> platforms would be a bonus.

I can do Linux & Windows+Cygwin.  I might be able to do a native
Windows build (I'm not familiar with free, native MS compilers).

> Oh, BTW - would it be useful to forward changelogs to the list as I
> check stuff in?

I think so.

-- Larry