Re: License of Hurd's common lisp bindings

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus schreef op do 29-04-2021 om 17:29 [+0200]:
> > Hi Maxime,
> >
> > are you still interested in working on Guile bindings for the 
> > Hurd?
>
> I'm still interested, but the conversion Common Lisp -> Scheme
> was a lot more tedious and tricky than expected at first, so I
> stopped actively working on it. The last commit was three weeks
> ago.

I can imagine.

> >   If so, do you have a public repository where we could 
> > collaborate?
>
> <https://notabug.org/mdevos/guile-hurd> (branch: scheme-guile)

Excellent, thank you.

> (1) gradually implement more of Common Lisp in 
> "hurd-cl-compat.scm",
>     such that more code ‘just compiles’ without source code 
>     tweaks

Are you compiling this on a Hurd system?  Or do you build it on 
GNU+Linux first?

> (2) when necessary or more convenient, convert the code to 
> Scheme.
>     For example, Scheme conditions do not support multiple 
>     inheritance,
>     and :before and :after is not supported in GOOPS.

Re multiple inheritance: Scheme has compound conditions, which 
might be enough.

> If you create an account at notabug.org, I could grant you 
> commit
> access, or we could just use the pull request system.  Commits 
> should
> be signed. If you create an account, can you send me a 
> PGP-signed
> message with your user name to confirm you're not some imposter?

Thanks.  I have just created an account: 
https://notabug.org/rekado

I probably won’t push directly, and probably won’t hack on it 
right away, but eventually I might submit some pull requests.

> (Your current key is BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6  2150 197A 5888 
> 235F ACAC,
> right?)

That’s correct.

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Ricardo

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