Re: Hi! Interested in GSoC. Feedback on these ideas?

2011-04-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Paul Raccuglia pracc...@haverford.edu writes: - AOT Compiler: write an interface to GCC I think this would be really cool. A good plan would be to use GCC, because it's already pretty sophisticated and handles lots of architectures. I would start by writing a scheme interface to GCC, and then

Re: Hi! Interested in GSoC. Feedback on these ideas?

2011-04-07 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Paul Raccuglia pracc...@haverford.edu writes: Hi! I'm interested in working on guile as part of the Google Summer of Code. [...] Currently I am thinking about: - A package manager (in the vein of apt-get) I know this is one that's come up a bit. I was thinking of writing a small web

Re: Hi! Interested in GSoC. Feedback on these ideas?

2011-04-07 Thread Paul Raccuglia
Could you be more specific?  What exactly in the code base did make you think so? Thanks, Rotty Hey. Sorry, to be a little clearer: It looks like Dorodango could provide a great resource to pull from. From my (very uninformed) cursory glance,I thought it would need some reworking to get it to

Re: Hi! Interested in GSoC. Feedback on these ideas?

2011-04-07 Thread Paul Raccuglia
Okay. So I'm settling on the idea of the package manager (not sure what to call it. A CPAN style thingy.) I'm thinking of looking primarily at dorodango or maybe Nix as resources,depending on what makes sense in the context of Guile. In

Re: Hi! Interested in GSoC. Feedback on these ideas?

2011-04-07 Thread Paul Raccuglia
Sorry. I should clarify. When I said add in a modular fashion, I meant that once that initial core was set up, it should be (primitively) functional, and adding functionality to the package manager would be something anyone could do.

Re: Hi! Interested in GSoC. Feedback on these ideas?

2011-04-07 Thread dsmich
Paul Raccuglia pracc...@haverford.edu wrote: Okay. So I'm settling on the idea of the package manager (not sure what to call it. A CPAN style thingy.) Oh, that's the easy part. ;^) How about gear. Could be something like Guile Extension Archive Repository. Gears are finely machined

Hi! Interested in GSoC. Feedback on these ideas?

2011-04-06 Thread Paul Raccuglia
Hi! I'm interested in working on guile as part of the Google Summer of Code. I'm Paul Raccuglia, a Math/CS student at Haverford College (and general freelance hacker). I'm pretty excited by Guile, I think it's a cool project. I do a lot of Python coding, and I love interpreted languages; Guile

Re: Hi! Interested in GSoC. Feedback on these ideas?

2011-04-06 Thread nalaginrut
Hi! I'm interested in working on guile as part of the Google Summer of Code. I'm Paul Raccuglia, a Math/CS student at Haverford College (and general freelance hacker). I'm pretty excited by Guile, I think it's a cool project. I do a lot of Python coding, and I love interpreted languages;