I haven't read this discussion in full detail, but I didn't see any mention of Descot. May I ask whether your discussion is related to Descot?
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz<[email protected]> wrote: > > hi, > > although i'm not (yet?) a regular ikarus user, i'm following your > proposals and discussion of the libraries repository with interest, and > would really like to see this happening. > > i don't have much to add to the many comments in the thread, except that > i agree with most of the conclusions so far, specially regarding > simplicity. but i wanted to point you out to a similar system that > solves, imho, very, very nicely most of the issues discussed here: > haskell's hackage/cabal/cabal-install combo (repo, packager, installer). > in my (granted, not very wide) experience, a pleasure to use both as a > developer and as a user. i've got the feeling that one could get many > good ideas from there, and even concrete implementation techniques. > > (as an aside, once we've got ikarus and geiser integrated, hooking into > the library manager from emacs will probably be a source of additional > niceties... although i'm sure that eduardo will beat me on that :)) > > cheers, > jao >
