Re: Ideas for a Guile tutorial to go with the new site

2015-11-19 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Howdy! > > I like all the ideas, being a fan of the simplicity and welcoming > aspects of the “Little” books. > > So, who’s in? :-) > > Thanks, > Ludo’. I'm glad you like it. I would *like* to be able to do this, but I officially don't have the time right at the moment

Re: Ideas for a Guile tutorial to go with the new site

2015-11-19 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Mathieu Lirzin writes: > Hi Christopher, > > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> - Intro >> - Getting up and running >>(picture of one of those robots with a wind-up-toy-key on its back?) >>+ How to start guile from the command line, add readline support >>+ Editor setup, simple >

Re: Ideas for a Guile tutorial to go with the new site

2015-11-19 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hi Christopher, Christopher Allan Webber writes: > - Intro > - Getting up and running >(picture of one of those robots with a wind-up-toy-key on its back?) >+ How to start guile from the command line, add readline support >+ Editor setup, simple > > Details how to write some s

Re: Unintentional conflict in define-immutable-type?

2015-11-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Rob Browning skribis: > This crashes in 2.0: > > (use-modules (srfi srfi-9 gnu)) > > (define-immutable-record-type foo > (foo x) > foo? > (x x)) > > (foo 1) > > like this: > > foo.scm:10:9: In procedure #: > foo.scm:10:9: In procedure make-struct: Wrong type argument in posi

Re: [PATCH] libraries: Abstract packages and categories.

2015-11-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mathieu Lirzin skribis: > Since the “libraries” page in the website will probably change regularly > it is useful to have some abstractions to facilitate the maintenance. Indeed. > A second step would be to provide a way to sync the software entries > with Guix package definitions. Could help,

Re: Unintentional conflict in define-immutable-type?

2015-11-19 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Rob, Rob Browning writes: > This crashes in 2.0: > > (use-modules (srfi srfi-9 gnu)) > > (define-immutable-record-type foo > (foo x) > foo? > (x x)) > > (foo 1) > > like this: > > foo.scm:10:9: In procedure #: > foo.scm:10:9: In procedure make-struct: Wrong type argument

Re: [PATCH] Added Artanis info to new main page

2015-11-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Luis Felipe López Acevedo skribis: > On 2015-11-08 15:35, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote: [...] >> With the rest of the website looking so very welcoming, I could imagine >> that the gdb screenshot might look a bit scary to newcomers; perhaps >> (part of) the foo-pretty-printer[1] would be a bit eas

Re: Ideas for a Guile tutorial to go with the new site

2015-11-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Howdy! I like all the ideas, being a fan of the simplicity and welcoming aspects of the “Little” books. So, who’s in? :-) Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: Asynchronous event loop brainstorm at FSF 30

2015-11-19 Thread Chris Vine
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:26:25 + Chris Vine wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:46:24 -0600 > Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > [snip] > > This sounds very interesting... is the source available? Could you > > point to it? > > > > Thanks! > > - Chris > > No it's not. I'll email you something

Re: Guile-Clutter 1.12.2 released

2015-11-19 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Le 2015-11-19 05:43, David Pirotte a écrit : Hello, We are pleased to announce Guile-Clutter 1.12.2, the next maintenance release for the Guile-Clutter 1.0 series. Thanks David and the team for making GNOME Clutter available in GNU Guile. I really like Clutter (and clutter but that's a story