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Re: Fmt Module
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Fmt Module |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:14:50 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110013 (No Gnus v0.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...]
>> I think it would make sense to include ‘fmt’ in core Guile only if the
>> API is reasonably stable and there are infrequent upstream releases, so
>> we don’t quickly end up shipping an old incompatible version.
>>
> I think `fmt' qualifies these criteria.
OK.
> However, even if I think based on your criteria nothing speaks against
> including fmt in Guile, there is still the argument of code duplication:
> if some external library (e.g., conjure) makes use of wak-fmt and
> another chooses the version included in Guile, a third program/library
> can't make use of both of these without ending up with two copies of the
> `fmt' code loaded, incurring a load-time and memory usage overhead.
> Obviously, there's also duplicated work involved in maintaining the
> different adaptions of the `fmt' code.
I agree.
I think there’s a tension between the interest of Guile, which is to
provide a convenient way to access useful features, and the interests of
implementation-neutral “platforms” like Wak. For instance I find it
important to have SXML, LALR, etc. usable out-of-the-box; it lowers the
barrier to entry.
Besides it’s still unclear (to me) what the future of Wak and similar
projects is. I hope that it will take off, but I haven’t forgotten
Snow, ScmPkg, etc. either.
> I think the ideal solution
I think there’s no ideal solution, not yet. :-)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- Fmt Module, Noah Lavine, 2011/03/12
- Re: Fmt Module, Andreas Rottmann, 2011/03/13
- Re: Fmt Module, Noah Lavine, 2011/03/13
- Re: Fmt Module, Ludovic Courtès, 2011/03/14
- Re: Fmt Module, Andreas Rottmann, 2011/03/23
- Re: Fmt Module,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: Fmt Module, Andreas Rottmann, 2011/03/26
- Re: Fmt Module, Ludovic Courtès, 2011/03/27
- Re: Fmt Module, Andy Wingo, 2011/03/27
- Re: Fmt Module, Noah Lavine, 2011/03/27
- Re: Fmt Module, Andreas Rottmann, 2011/03/27