Hi, Mikael Djurfeldt <mik...@djurfeldt.com> writes:
> Hi Rob, > > My personal view is that it would be great to include this. > > I guess the main underlying question is how "bloated" we want to make the > distribution. Your contribution is just 200 lines, so I think it is fine. > Of course, if we always say that... I think erring on the side of more features/modules wouldn't hurt Guile at this point. The "bloat" is one of the reason of Python's success after all (batteries included!). And as you noted, outside of using Guix, extending Guile by installing extra libraries/modules is not as trivial a task as users would expect, so that's an extra reason to include things in the base distribution. -- Thanks, Maxim