Re: [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names.

2011-05-03 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 03 May 2011 00:18, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: I still think that we need at least the ability to pass a bytevector as a path name, on GNU systems; and that if we can do so, then any routine that needs to deal with a path name would then need to deal in byte vectors in

Re: [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names.

2011-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Tue 03 May 2011 00:18, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: I still think that we need at least the ability to pass a bytevector as a path name, on GNU systems; and that if we can do so, then any routine that needs to deal with a path name would

Re: heads up: goops class export

2011-05-03 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi! On Tue 03 May 2011 10:50, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: Currently when you define a SMOB type or set a name on a vtable, a corresponding class is automatically exported from (oop goops). This breaks modularity, and I think we should stop

Re: How do i refer to the symbol ( and )?

2011-05-03 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 03 May 2011 10:54, CRLF0710 crlf0...@gmail.com writes: While '\{ and '\} are ok, '\( and '\[ are not. So, what's the correct way to refer to them? In Guile 2.0.1: scheme@(guile-user) (string-symbol () $1 = #{\x28;}# Earlier versions do this differently. Best thing to do is to refer

Re: g-wrap - fresh git clone - can't find libguile.h:

2011-05-03 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 02 May 2011 20:57, David Pirotte da...@altosw.be writes: After having just installed a guile fresh git clone, g-wrap [fresh git clone too] won't make. What platform are you on? GNU/Linux? From which distributor? Andy -- http://wingolog.org/

Re: g-wrap - fresh git clone - can't find libguile.h:

2011-05-03 Thread David Pirotte
Le Tue, 03 May 2011 12:43:07 +0200, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com a écrit : On Mon 02 May 2011 20:57, David Pirotte da...@altosw.be writes: After having just installed a guile fresh git clone, g-wrap [fresh git clone too] won't make. What platform are you on? GNU/Linux? From which

Re: heads up: goops class export

2011-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Tue 03 May 2011 10:50, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: Currently when you define a SMOB type or set a name on a vtable, a corresponding class is automatically exported from (oop goops). This breaks

Re: heads up: goops class export

2011-05-03 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi :) On Tue 03 May 2011 14:19, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: smob-name-class Yes, why not. (It’s equivalent to (@@ (oop goops) foobar) in terms of providing access to everyone, though.) OK. GOOPS really isn't for the ocap folks, given

Re: g-wrap - fresh git clone - can't find libguile.h:

2011-05-03 Thread Andreas Rottmann
David Pirotte da...@altosw.be writes: Le Tue, 03 May 2011 12:43:07 +0200, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com a écrit : On Mon 02 May 2011 20:57, David Pirotte da...@altosw.be writes: After having just installed a guile fresh git clone, g-wrap [fresh git clone too] won't make. What

Re: g-wrap - fresh git clone - can't find libguile.h:

2011-05-03 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Andreas Rottmann a.rottm...@gmx.at writes: David Pirotte da...@altosw.be writes: Le Tue, 03 May 2011 12:43:07 +0200, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com a écrit : On Mon 02 May 2011 20:57, David Pirotte da...@altosw.be writes: After having just installed a guile fresh git clone, g-wrap [fresh

Re: g-wrap - fresh git clone - can't find libguile.h:

2011-05-03 Thread Mike Gran
We have finally figured it out after some debugging via IRC:  David has had set PKG_CONFIG=true when configuring Guile, which lead to an installation with a (silently) broken guile-config script; meta/guile-config.in contains: (define %pkg-config-program @PKG_CONFIG@) The mayhem that resulted is

Re: guile-gnome gives a strange 'guile not found' message

2011-05-03 Thread David Pirotte
Le Mon, 2 May 2011 16:11:33 -0300, David Pirotte da...@altosw.be a écrit : After having just installed a guile git clone and a fresh guile-gnome-platform ... ... checking for Guile... configure: error: Guile 1.8.0 or newer is required, but you only have . configure failed

Re: [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names.

2011-05-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: That's the crazy thing: file names on GNU aren't in any encoding! They are byte strings that may or may not decode to a string, given some encoding. Granted, they're mostly UTF-8 these days, but users have the darndest files... [...] On Tue 03 May 2011

Re: [PATCH 2/5] [mingw]: Have compiled-file-name produce valid names.

2011-05-03 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello all, I have another issue to raise. I think this is actually parallel to some of the stuff in the (web) module, as you will see. I've always thought it was ridiculous and hackish that I had to escape spaces in path strings. For instance, I have a folder called Getting a Job on my desktop,