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*** SLIPPERY CHICKEN ***
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This is the slippery-chicken app, for algorithmic composition.  It
should run on Mac OSX 10.6.x and 10.7.x.  Documentation and other
resources are available online at http://www.michael-edwards.org/sc

It bundles slippery chicken (including CM 2.6.0) with CLM-4 and CMN.
Similar to (and liberally copied from ;) Rick Taube's old CM.app, it
merely fires up your Emacs application with slime and SBCL and loads
all the packages.  The first time it runs it might take some time to
compile everything but from then on it should be much faster.

Prerequisites: 
* Emacs: either /Applications/Emacs.app
  (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) 
  or /Applications/Aquamacs.app (http://aquamacs.org/)  
  I think Aquamacs behaves most like a native OSX text editor, so if 
  you've never used Emacs before start with this. 
* The GNU C compiler (gcc), which comes free with Apple's developer
  tools 

Known issues: 

* If the app is in a folder whose name (or parents' names) has spaces
  it might just hang forever.
* SBCL spits out loads or (really unhelpful) warnings--just ignore
  them.
* If you're already an Emacs+slime user and have code in your .emacs
  file which loads slime or defines an *inferior-lisp* image, or a
  ~/.swank.lisp slime init file, or perhaps even a ~/.sbclrc init file
  for SBCL, then the app may just fail as it tries to handshake your
  init code with its own.  But then it sounds like you know what
  you're doing anyway so get the code base from
  http://www.michael-edwards.org/sc/source.html and hand load it as
  per the installation instructions.

If there are any problems, please post the error messages to
http://groups.google.com/group/slippery-chicken

Michael Edwards
m@michael-edwards.org
12th June 2012
