Re: [Texmacs-dev] Guile 2.0 for TeXmacs?

[Alvaro Tejero Cantero]

Actually I had a look, and besides having a nice development
environment and lots of documentation, there are also heaps of
interesting libraries, too

http://docs.racket-lang.org/plot/index.html

http://docs.racket-lang.org/index.html

-á.



On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 22:36, Sam Liddicott <address@hidden> wrote:
> Define-syntax at docs.racket-lang.org/quick/ reminds me of drd's
>
> Sam
>
> On Jan 27, 2012 10:06 AM, "Alvaro Tejero Cantero" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Racket, formerly known as  PLT Scheme, seems to receive a lot of
>> attention from users and developers:
>>
>> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RacketLanguage
>>
>> http://racket-lang.org/
>>
>>
>> -á.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:42, Joris van der Hoeven
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Hi Karl,
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:46:48PM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
>> >> I'm wondering if anyone is presently working on patching TeXmacs so
>> >> that it
>> >> will build and run with Guile 2.0. In the Guile-2.0 NEWS file, I see
>> >> that
>> >> "The GH interface (deprecated in version 1.6, 2001) was removed."
>> >> TeXmacs
>> >> fails to build because it's looking for <guile/gh.h> which is no longer
>> >> present.
>> >
>> > Yes, I am aware of the problem, but I have not really been working on it
>> > yet.
>> > Guile induces a *lot* of problems at the moment and it is not even clear
>> > that
>> > we really want to go all the way to Guile 2.*. On the one hand, it is
>> > true that
>> > Guile 2.0 includes a much faster byte code interpreter. On the other
>> > hand though,
>> > Guile is growing more and more maximalistic: the number of dependencies
>> > is
>> > going out of hand, making portability a major concern. Also, Guile 2.0
>> > now relies on Boehm GC for garbage collection; having used this garbage
>> > collector in another project, I am very suspicious and fear that this
>> > move
>> > may introduce subtle bugs and make code harder to debug. I have
>> > discussed
>> > these issues on the GNU developers list and the Guile developers are
>> > willing
>> > to make things a little bit better. Yet, it is not clear at all that
>> > this
>> > will be enough. Massimiliano has started to look for possible
>> > replacements
>> > of Guile. Another solution would be to stick to an old version, include
>> > the sources with TeXmacs and take care of maintainance issues ourselves.
>> >
>> > Best wishes, --Joris
>> >
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