Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-30 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 21 Mar 2011 22:50, Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net writes: - gel is short; and it's the name of Guile before it was Guile; and suggests sticking things together; and AFAIK isn't already being used for anything else; and has similar key positions as gdo, so is equally easy to

on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools)

2011-03-30 Thread Andy Wingo
Howdy, On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: Guido, compile my-file.scm. Is the pun[*] intended? :-) OK, point taken. Too bad though! I have another proposal, but first I want to elaborate on why I think guile-tools is a

Re: on the importance of names (was: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools)

2011-03-30 Thread nalaginrut
Howdy, On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: Guido, compile my-file.scm. Is the pun[*] intended? :-) OK, point taken. Too bad though! I have another proposal, but first I want to elaborate on why I think

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-30 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Mon 21 Mar 2011 22:50, Neil Jerram n...@ossau.uklinux.net writes: - gel is short; and it's the name of Guile before it was Guile; and suggests sticking things together; and AFAIK isn't already being used for anything else; and has similar key

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: Guido, compile my-file.scm. Is the pun[*] intended? :-) Not really, no :) FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread nalaginrut
On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: Guido, compile my-file.scm. Is the pun[*] intended? :-) Not really, no :) FWIW I’m happy with the verbose

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Barry Fishman
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste. I’d also be happy with a shorter name, though. OK. Anyone have any other good short names? If you

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
On Mon, Mar 21 2011, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hey! Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: Guido, compile my-file.scm. Is the pun[*] intended? :-) A more or less obvious pun (but not as smooth grammatically) would be beguile(d)... beguiled

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread David Pirotte
Le Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:27:13 +0100, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com a écrit : On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: Guido, compile my-file.scm. Is the pun[*] intended?

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread dsmich
Barry Fishman barry_fish...@acm.org wrote: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste. I’d also be happy with a shorter name, though.

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Neil Jerram
On 21 March 2011 12:16, Barry Fishman barry_fish...@acm.org wrote: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste.  I’d also be happy with a shorter

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Andy Wingo
On Mon 21 Mar 2011 15:10, Neil Jerram neiljer...@gmail.com writes: On 21 March 2011 12:16, Barry Fishman barry_fish...@acm.org wrote: Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: On Mon 21 Mar 2011 00:16, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-21 Thread Neil Jerram
Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: This is fun :) Here are a few threads the PLT folk had: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.plt.devel/2540 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.plt.devel/2693/focus=2715 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.plt.devel/2775 Well

Re: proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey! Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: it has a pleasant subject-verb-object when you say it: Guido, compile my-file.scm. Is the pun[*] intended? :-) FWIW I’m happy with the verbose name and I fear the joke wouldn’t be to everyone’s taste. I’d also be happy with a shorter name, though.

proposal: enhance and rename guile-tools

2011-03-19 Thread Andy Wingo
Hello all, Like many of you, I am enamored of the git style of command line interfaces: git add this, git commit that, etc. Guile has guile-tools, which, though not well documented, does support this. guile-tools compile foo loads the `(scripts compile)' module, and punts argument processing