Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > On Mon 07 Mar 2011 21:13, Andreas Rottmann <a.rottm...@gmx.at> writes: > >> I'm (very slowly) working on getting dorodango[0] to work on Guile. In >> principle, nothing in Dorodango is inherently tied to R6RS -- it should >> very reasonably be possible to use it for Guile-specific packages as >> well. >> >> [0] http://home.gna.org/dorodango/ > > Looks very nice, and well thought-out. Dorodango would be an excellent > starting point. > > Alaric Snell-Pym gave us an overview of Chicken's system here: > http://rotty.yi.org/irclogs/freenode/#guile/2011-02-10/#e212 > > I agree with him that one of the most important aspects about > CPAN-alikes is the social one: how the system enables the hack, and with > what flavor. For example right now Guile has a tight center, enforced > by the stability needs of Guile, as well as the copyright assignment > policy, then a wide-orbiting set of comet- and asteroid-like libraries. > A good CPAN-alike would smooth this out into a gradient of more and less > experimental hacks, to enable participation of folks with useful > libraries, but which don't need to be in Guile proper. > > It would be good to also think about modules' test suites, > documentation, code coverage, code analysis and such, and be opinionated > about that. > Yeah, that are all areas I envisioned for dorodango, but have not yet tackled.
> It would be interesting to have the ability to add on, as an additional > source of code, repos with portable R6RS code. > Indeed. Dorodango already has the capability to deal with multiple repositories, and a Guile-specific version of Dorodango would probably come with a default configuration that points to Guile's (default) reprository; users would then add additional ones according to their likes. > I wonder how this would affect us socially though. > No idea :-). Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
