> From: Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> > If I could vote for one thing to focus on in 2012, for the broader Guile > community, I'd pick two things ;-) I'd pick Guile in Emacs, first of > all. We have the hack power, the time is right, and we just need to > focus on the task. By the end of the year we could have a credible, > attractive offering. > > The other thing I'd like for us to focus on, in a stable-2.0 sense, > would be the guildhall. There's some hacking that needs to be done > there, but I'm hoping to get out a first workable prototype within a > month or two, then let the meta-maintenance be driven by patches, while > the repository of modules in the guildhall has time to grow and grow. > Help here is much appreciated! :-)
Hello All, I was a bit reluctant to throw out my comment on the mission statement, since lately I've been all talk and no action. Stupid reality getting in the way. :-( +1 for Guildhall. One weakness of Guile has been the difficulty in finding and using quality 3rd party libraries. I'd extend the Guildhall idea by also defining a way to download and build the various C library bindings that aren't currently packaged by the distros. Gtk, Cairo, Postgres, SDL, etc. I think Garnome or Gsrc could be pressed in to service. (Or Hydra?) (Garnome was once a makefile-based build system for Gnome that automated the downloading and building the whole Gnome ecosystem in a user's local directory. GNU Gsrc uses the same underlying system, and can be used to download and build much of GNU.) <heresy> Also, since so many people fear the parenthesis, I'd like to see some simple non-Lisp-like language become a supported language in Guile, but have it be able to directly use Guile's library functions, much like how different .Net languages use the same library. A Lua-like with Guile types and access to a subset of Guile functions, perhaps. I know that you want to believe that if your tech is good enough, people will learn Scheme. For many people, that just won't ever happen. It will always be a blocker for increasing the popularity of Guile. (Did I just propose Dylan?) </heresy> Anyway, my two cents. Thanks, Mike