guile-lib has moved: http://www.nongnu.org/guile-lib/

2009-01-29 Thread Andy Wingo 
Hello all,

Guile-Lib has moved to http://www.nongnu.org/guile-lib/, and has
switched to git. We hope that this change will make it easier for Guile
contributors to get involved with Guile-Lib, and vice versa.

Check out guile-lib from git like this:

   git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guile-lib.git

Visit guile-lib's git on the web:

   http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile-lib.git

Accesses to the old web page will redirect to the new one. An update to
the bzr repository will give you this information also, and the download
area on GNA has a new readme that points people to the new locations.
Voila.

Guile-Lib will now use Guile's mailing lists as its own.

Questions? Concerns? Patches? Send them to guile-user or guile-devel,
whatever seems appropriate.

Happy hacking,

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/

Fwd: Installing SLIB 3b1 with Guile 1.8.6 (to work with Gnucash 2.8.8) [SOLVED]

2009-01-29 Thread Tom Browder 
I recently had a struggle getting slib to work with the latest guile
release (1.8.6).  I believe para. 6.1.1 of the guile reference manual
needs to be rewritten since the procedures don't seem to work as
advertised.  Following is the wording I suggest based on my experience
with guile 1.8.6 and the latest slib release (3b1):

[Note that the link to the SLIB installation is broken.]

==

6.1.1 SLIB installation

The following procedure works, e.g., with SLIB version 3b1 (see SLIB
installation):

  1. Unpack SLIB and install it using make install from its directory. By
 default, this will install SLIB in /usr/local/lib/slib/. Running make
 installinfo installs its documentation, by default under
 /usr/local/info/.

  2. Create a symlink in the Guile directory to SLIB, e.g.:

   mkdir -p /usr/local/share/guile/site
   ln -s /usr/local/lib/slib /usr/local/share/guile/site/slib

  3. Use Guile to create the catalog file, e.g.,:

   # guile
   guile (use-modules (ice-9 slib))
   guile (require 'new-catalog)
   guile (quit)

 The catalog data should now be in /usr/local/share/guile/site/slibcat.

 If instead you get an error such as:

 Unbound variable: scheme-implementation-type

 then a solution is to get a newer version of Guile, or to modify
ice-9/slib.scm to use define-public for the offending variables.

  4. Test the installation by executing the following at the command line:

   guile -c (use-modules (ice-9 slib)) (require 'printf)

==

Notice that the instructions for setting environment variables, for
some reason, did not work for me.  I have seen several other threads
from other folks who have had the same experience, i.e., environment
variables not working.

Notice also that the directory /usr/local/share/guile/site was not
produced during the guile installation, and putting the slib directory
under /usr/local/share/guile/1.8 didn't work either.

I'll be happy to present this as a patch.

Regards,

-Tom

Tom Browder
Niceville, Florida
USA

Re: Wide strings

2009-01-29 Thread Neil Jerram 
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

 Do we need to talk more about what needs to be accomplished? Do we
 need a complete specification? Do we need a vote on if it is a good
 idea?

 I think you're going in the right direction. More importantly, although
 I can't speak for them, Neil and Ludo seem to think so too.

 Yes, as far as I'm concerned.  I know you're probably more knowledgeable
 than I am on this issue and I'm confident.

For the record, I'm happy too - in fact I'm excited that Guile is
finally going to have wide strings.  Technically I think I'm less of
an expert here than everyone else who has commented, so I'm happy to
defer to the apparent consensus.  I see that Clinton's idea goes
beyond that, but (IIUC) it looks like we doesn't lose anything by
going with Latin-1/UCS-32 now, and then Clinton's idea could be added
later; is that correct?

Regards,
Neil