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Re: Archive of library modules for Guile
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Andreas Rottmann |
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Re: Archive of library modules for Guile |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Mar 2004 00:00:41 +0100 |
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Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
> Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Neil: I looked at the page http://www.ossau.uklinux.net/guile/ and I
>> think there is some general use code there. If you don't have
>> something against it, i'll reap what I consider useful, and toss it
>> along with the guile-library-0.1 tarball into a an Arch archive for
>> public consumption and hacking. I'll announce the availability to
>> guile-user when ready.
>
> Please do! Please also keep me in touch with what I need to do to
> join in the hacking - I'm not yet familiar with Arch, but what I'm
> hearing sounds fun. It's possible that I have more up to date
> versions of some of the bits that accessible from my web page, but I
> can sort that out later as a way of getting myself used to the system.
>
OK, will start things this weekend. I'll keep guile-user, you, and ttn
posted.
>> ttn: I think it would be cool if the glug people could branch off this
>> archive and add their general-use code to their branches. I'll then
>> happily merge this code back in. Detailed instructions on how this
>> would happen will be provided with the archive
>> announcement. Thoughts? ]
>>
>> And finally: what is the general feeling about such an archive among
>> the Guile user (and developer) community?
>
> I've been wondering about (the hypothetical) GUMM again recently,
> [...]
>
I think it would be really cool if we could work together on
standardizing on a coherent module namespace, maybe with personal
modules that are integrated into the "core" namespace as they mature
and are used more widely.
> It may be that the key to a good GUMM is not so much distribution as
> hackability - in which case your Arch archive might be just what we
> need. Definitely worth a go, anyway.
>
One the developer side, this may suffice. I intend to only host
scheme-only stuff in the archive (at least initially), since depending
on external ABIs will complicate stuff.
On a related issue I also wonder about ttn's new build system, which
seems like an automake-replacement at a first glance. Since it ties in
Guile into the configure process (or rather the autoconf run), it's
bound to be much more flexible. I imagine one would be able to make it
an interesting team together with tla's build-config command --
i.e. build different tarball distributions for different combinations
of components of the archive automatically, so we could easily release
subsystems of the library separatly, resulting in stuff like:
guile-lib-0.1.tar.gz
guile-lib-experimental-0.1.tar.gz
guile-lib-pers-ttn-0.1.tar.gz
...
With my itla-debuild tool[0], we could release stuff directly from the
archive as Debian packages in a really convinient fashion :-)
[0] See http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9926584/ITLA.html for a bit of
info. My current working copy just sucessfully built its first
packages, will commit to my archive soon, expect a debian package
in < a few months.
Cheers, Andy
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- Re: ITLA, (continued)
- Re: ITLA, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/01
- Re: ITLA, Tom Lord, 2004/03/01
- Re: ITLA, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/02
- Re: ITLA, Tom Lord, 2004/03/02
- Re: ITLA, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/02
- Re: ITLA, Miles Bader, 2004/03/02
- Re: ITLA, Neil Jerram, 2004/03/04
- Re: ITLA, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/04
- Archive of library modules for Guile, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/07
- Re: Archive of library modules for Guile, Neil Jerram, 2004/03/08
- Re: Archive of library modules for Guile,
Andreas Rottmann <=
- Re: Archive of library modules for Guile, Thamer Al-Harbash, 2004/03/10
- Re: Archive of library modules for Guile, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/03/10
- Re: Arch and Guile, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/03/01
- Re: Arch and Guile, Andreas Rottmann, 2004/03/02
- Re: Arch and Guile, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/03/04
Re: Extended -e syntax, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/03/01
Re: Extended -e syntax, Christopher Cramer, 2004/03/01