Re: GNU Guile 2.0.9 released

2013-04-10 Thread alex sassmannshausen
Sound very exciting. Congratulations on the great work that continues to be done on Guile. Best wishes, Alex On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org wrote: We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.0.9, the next maintenance release for the 2.0.x stable series.

Re: GNU Guile 2.0.10 released

2014-03-18 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Congratulations to all involved in this release — it sounds great and I'm looking forward to playing with it's features! All the best, Alex Ludovic Courtès writes: We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.0.10, the next maintenance release for the 2.0.x stable series. This release

Re: Welcome Mark as new co-maintainer

2014-05-30 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
What a lovely email summarizing, at the very least, exactly how I feel about Guile and its community. Belatedly, congrats on the appointment! Best wishes, Alex Mark H Weaver writes: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: I’m happy to announce that Mark H. Weaver has now been officially

Re: FOSDEM 2016

2015-09-01 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Pjotr over on guix-devel has proposed we organise a Guile developer track at the next FOSDEM (January 2016). There seems to be a pretty good reception on the guix mailing lists, and we're still looking for ideas for talks, etc. If you'd be interested in giving a talk, check out

Re: The Guile community we could have (or: solving Worse is More Accessible)

2015-09-26 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
+1 for your thoughts too Chris! Alex Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer writes: > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> Luis Felipe López Acevedo writes: >> Really the design is really well made, no problem with that, I just want to be sure that we won't disappoint

Re: Ideas for a Guile tutorial to go with the new site

2015-12-16 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Chris, Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> Hello! >> >> So I've been thinking a bit about what a friendly "intro" tutorial would >> look like that could fit with the direction the site is heading. I came >> up with some ideas I wanted to capture before I

Getopt-long patch

2016-02-14 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
rom ca68d19528a21fec4bde269be261eff123709ac4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshau...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:16:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Make getopt-long throw errors if requested. Getopt-long thus far simply prints a user message and exits if it encounters an error in either t

Re: FOSDEM social dinner

2017-01-31 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
amirouche writes: > On 29/01/2017 17:15, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> Alex Sassmannshausen writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> To confirm, I've now placed a reservation for Saturday 4 February at >>> 19:30 at a Lebanese restaurant called Al Jan

FOSDEM social dinner

2017-01-06 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Guile has a dev room at FOSDEM this year — for a whole day! The dev room will be on Sunday. Whilst organising it, we had the idea that it would be fun to have a Guile/Guix user & dev dinner on the Saturday evening. I'm hereby officially opening registration for that :-D I have not

Re: FOSDEM 2017 Schedule is there!

2016-12-19 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Pjotr Prins writes: > Check it out K.3.201 - looks awesome! > > https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/day/saturday/ Indeed, most excellent! Looking forward to this greatly :-) Alex

GNU Hackers Meeting 2017 call for presentations!

2017-04-28 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello! The GNU Hackers Meeting is looking for presentations for this years programme! Find out all you need to know, and/or submit your proposal at https://www.gnu.org/ghm/programme.html . The deadline for submissions is 4 June 2017. The meeting will take place 24 - 27 August in Germany. The

Re: The Message Papers Part I: On Social Interaction

2017-11-06 Thread alex sassmannshausen
wishes, Alex Sassmannshausen On 7 Nov 2017 5:05 a.m., "Sutter, Benjamin" < benjaminsut...@aurora-schools.org> wrote: > Hello, Guilers. I'm a relatively new face for most likely all of you, if > you've seen me at all (I'm bms_ on IRC, which is where I've been), but > today I'

Re: FOSDEM 2019 (ACTION: please register or mail)

2018-08-24 Thread alex sassmannshausen
I'm in. On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, 11:23 Pjotr Prins, wrote: > Who wants to come to a separate 2 day GNU Guix event? > > That is the Thursday Jan 31st and/or Friday Feb 1st right before > FOSDEM. I.e., 4 days of hacker nirvana. > > FOSDEM is really great. Look at last year's schedule for Saturday > >

ping: Fixes for guile.m4

2019-01-21 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, In December Aleix proposed the following patch to address an issue in guile.m4 whereby guile programs using the autotools infrastructure would not find guile and other tools on distributions such as Ubuntu: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2018-12/msg2.htm Guile-Hall,

Re: ping: Fixes for guile.m4

2019-01-21 Thread alex sassmannshausen
Hi Mike, Thanks for taking the time to test, and for the background info. I hadn't considered the bug tracker! I'll see if we can get it in there :) Cheers, Alex On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, 14:42 Mike Gran On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:25:17AM +, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: > >

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2019-02-06 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > >> Mikael Djurfeldt writes: >> >>> It was a great experience and joy for me to meet some of you at FOSDEM >>> 2019. Thank you all! >> >> Thank you, too! >> >>> Now a piece of advice. >>> >>> Everyone who works with Guile knows

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2019-02-06 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > >> Hi Amirouche >> >> Amirouche Boubekki writes: >> >>> Le mer. 6 févr. 2019 à 14:47, Alex Sassmannshausen >>> a écrit : >>> >>> > - Janneke mentioned the new guile

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2019-02-06 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Amirouche Amirouche Boubekki writes: > Le mer. 6 févr. 2019 à 14:47, Alex Sassmannshausen > a écrit : > > > - Janneke mentioned the new guile build system in guix for simpler > >guile packages and I think that's pretty great. Likewise there was > >

Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile

2019-10-18 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Mikhail, Mikhail Kryshen writes: > Andy, > > If you've long had issues with RMS, then why do you still want to be > with GNU? You don't have to participate in GNU to be part of the free > software movement. Is it that you see GNU as an important platform for > your political activism? Is

Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile

2019-10-18 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes: > This is very sad. I appreciate the enormous time investments of all > of you for Guile. When you make a decision, I hope you understand the > other. > > Regards, > Florian Many incredibly thoughtful emails have been sent to the mailing list on this

Re: New module proposal: argp

2020-04-28 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Dale Mellor writes: > Hello, > >I've recently sent up updates to the (ice-9 getopt-long) module as needed > for my mcron program, and I want to follow that up > with a higher-level argument parser in a new module called argp (it will work > along similar lines to glibc's argp). > >

Re: Guile Potluck 2021

2021-02-20 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Mike, Great to see you organise to continue this hallowed tradition! :-) I would love to participate by cheating a little and submitting a new release of Guile Hall, which is overdue and should happen between 1 and 6 March. Best wishes, Alex Mike Gran writes: > Hello All- > > In

Re: Guilr-Lib - New maintainer

2024-04-02 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Congratulations Maxim, you will definitely be a great maintainer! Thank you David for your work on Guile-lib. It's a library that I've come to use more and more as time has gone on! Best wishes, Alex David Pirotte writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > Guilers, > > Please hail at the new