Re: Problems with guile-sqlite3

2011-04-20 Thread Detlev Zundel
Hi David, > I am sorry for the very loong delay in responding, but yes it did work > for me as > well, many thanks for your patches. Ok, thanks for the confirmation. > I'd love to have a './configure --prefix=... && make install' [even though > there is > only only file for the time being]

Re: Problems with guile-sqlite3

2011-04-20 Thread David Pirotte
Hi Detlev, I am sorry for the very loong delay in responding, but yes it did work for me as well, many thanks for your patches. I'd love to have a './configure --prefix=... && make install' [even though there is only only file for the time being], could you help me doing the setup or point

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

2011-04-20 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Andreas Rottmann writes: >> I was thinking that most of this project could be written in Guile. >> > I think all of it can be written in Scheme, except for some low-level > code interfacing with things like libzip (if ZIP is adopted as a package > format). > Let me restate: *all* of it can/should

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

2011-04-20 Thread Noah Lavine
> Well, IIRC, it's not a feature that "dorodango does not have" ;-): > dordango's package container format (referred to as a "bundle") can > contain multiple packages.  So it is possible to pack all your > dependencies in a single ZIP, and install them in one go using that > bundle.  There's a bit

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

2011-04-20 Thread Andreas Rottmann
CRLF0710 writes: > Something like the Planets of Racket-lang? Should be able to install > offline, though~ > FWIW, dorodango supports local filesystem-based repositories, so you can just mirror your favorite repository, and then install offline. Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann --

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

2011-04-20 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Noah Lavine writes: > 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, and that's fine with me. But I was thinking about what we > could do that would be a "killer feature" for Guil

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

2011-04-20 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Paul Raccuglia writes: [ Note that I'm writing here with my dorodango developer hat on, not so much as a potential co-mentor. ] > > My thoughts, specifically, were for the client to be fairly similar in > function to apt-get. (from the user's perspective) > The core commands would be: > > INST

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

2011-04-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Dmitry Dzhus writes: > CRLF0710 wrote: >> Guile 2.0 has been there for some time. Why there's still not any >> guile-2.0 package in linux distributions? > > There's a Guile 2.0 ebuild in Gentoo Portage main tree, also Lisp team > provides ebuilds for building trunk version of Guile. Not

Re: [PATCH] Several tweaks for R6RS ports

2011-04-20 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Andy Wingo writes: > Hi Andreas, > > On Thu 24 Mar 2011 01:47, Andreas Rottmann writes: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> Could you send a patch to update the manual? >>> >> I have started working on this, but I'm notorious (at least to myself) >> for starving documentation-rela

Re: Guile virtual machine targets

2011-04-20 Thread Ewan Higgs
Hello again, Ludovic, those were interesting reads. Thanks for sending them my way. For those reading along, however, it should be noted that vmkit is part of the broader llvm project[1]. So I found the report read as a rationalization for the vmkit sub project and it's likely that vmkit is w

New feature proposal: Support C-code inline?

2011-04-20 Thread nalaginrut
hi all! I think somebody will need such a C-inline feature when he wants to write a smart C-function to replace the critical function in his algorithm. And I found a similar feature in Ruby. So I wrote a module to provide this. Anyway, I think the best solution is a AOT compiler for guile. But it