Re: CPAN-type thing: specifications, wishes, thoughts?

2011-04-18 Thread CRLF0710
Something like the Planets of Racket-lang? Should be able to install offline, though~ 2011/4/18 Noah Lavine noah.b.lav...@gmail.com: Hello all, I'm afraid this email is coming much later in the planning process than it should, and quite possibly we won't be able to do any of this for SoC,

Re: enhancement requests

2011-04-18 Thread Wolfgang J Moeller
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Andy Wingo wrote: Hi Wolfgang, On Mon 21 Mar 2011 01:24, Wolfgang J Moeller w...@heenes.com writes: (4) compiler: Now that compiling into hidden ~.cache/... directories has been declared the default behaviour, please cater to those (like me) who'd always

Re: CPAN-type thing: specifications, wishes, thoughts?

2011-04-18 Thread Tristan Colgate-McFarlane
Something that works through a http proxy (if HTTP is going to be sued), would be nice too. Failing that, an easy way of creating and using local mirrors and repos would be really useful. That's my pet hate with racket. On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 15:56 +0800, CRLF0710 wrote: Something like the

Re: soc mentor?

2011-04-18 Thread Diogo F. S. Ramos
Hi all, Andy Wingo wi...@pobox.com writes: We need to shake up those students. But if we were to get more slots -- totally unknown at this point, btw -- we would need more mentors, and more projects. For example Diogo might be interested in guile-gnome stuff, and perhaps Paul or Kentarô

Guile virtual machine targets

2011-04-18 Thread Ewan Higgs
Hi all, With Noah's suggestion of moving the Guile vm in a direction to support CLisp work as well, I became curious about the status of the various Guile back ends (Lightning and Guile-vm). These questions are largely out of personal interest and not leading up to any particular piece of work

Re: Guile virtual machine targets

2011-04-18 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, Let me clarify a bit about Lightning and the stuff I've been doing: Lightning is a very low-level assembler framework. It is embeddable, and Guile could certainly target it, but targeting Lightning would be just a speed enhancement - it wouldn't make us more compatible with anything else.

Re: Guile virtual machine targets

2011-04-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, There are experience reports suggesting that LLVM is not well suited for JIT: it’s relatively slow because the main goal is AOT, not JIT, and has a large memory footprint. For example, from http://vmkit.llvm.org/publications/vmkit.html, Section 4.3 (“Startup Time”): Although LLVM has

Just to mention: Why there's still not any guile-2.0 packages in linux distributions?

2011-04-18 Thread CRLF0710
Guile 2.0 has been there for some time. Why there's still not any guile-2.0 package in linux distributions? Did they have trouble packaging it? By the way, is the .go file portable? Building them(rnrs, ice-9 etc) during compiling guile takes so long... Thanks -- CrLF.0710

Re: Just to mention: Why there's still not any guile-2.0 packages in linux distributions?

2011-04-18 Thread Noah Lavine
I don't know about the packaging, but I think the .go files depend on the endianness of the machine but nothing else. So you should be able to move them between different little-endian or big-endian machines (unless I'm wrong). But it seems much safer to me to just compile things. You shouldn't

Re: Just to mention: Why there's still not any guile-2.0 packages in linux distributions?

2011-04-18 Thread CRLF0710
Thanks. I want to deploy guile 2.0 to about ten machines ( of our development team members'). Since they have the same endianness maybe i'll give this a try... But now i worry most about the deployment of our final software. The deployment will be in September. Well, most of the dependencies can