Re: (ice-9 base64)?

2022-08-19 Thread Maxime Devos
On 19-08-2022 02:20, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué wrote: So, what do you think would be the way to proceed in order to include a base64 implementation in Guile itself? For example: 1. Add (ice-9 base64) (or (encoding base64)) to Guile and let new projects and existing projects to update

Re: (ice-9 base64)?

2022-08-18 Thread Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 12:56 AM Maxime Devos wrote: > Then, if I understood correctly, IMO I would say Guile should not really > care about Guix's bundling/unbundling. That is, adding (ice-9 base64) (or > however we want to call it... maybe (encoding base64) following Golang and >

Re: (ice-9 base64)?

2022-08-18 Thread Maxime Devos
Then, if I understood correctly, IMO I would say Guile should not really care about Guix's bundling/unbundling. That is, adding (ice-9 base64) (or however we want to call it... maybe (encoding base64) following Golang and Guile's (web ) module) should be totally independent of Guix. So

Re: (ice-9 base64)?

2022-08-17 Thread Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
Thank you for the explanations Maxime! Then, if I understood correctly, IMO I would say Guile should not really care about Guix's bundling/unbundling. That is, adding (ice-9 base64) (or however we want to call it... maybe (encoding base64) following Golang and Guile's (web ) module) should

Re: (ice-9 base64)?

2022-08-17 Thread Maxime Devos
projects to make them use (ice-9 base64). I think they could switch whenever they want (i.e. whenever this was added to Guile) or even not switch at all. Sure, but they can't switch if they don't know about it. And if they don't know about it and hence don't switch

Re: (ice-9 base64)?

2022-08-17 Thread Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
gt; Hi, >> >> In many projects I've been copying Göran Weinholt's base64 >> implementation and I've also seen it in other projects, would it make sense >> to include it in Guile's standard library? [...] >> >> If we do this, we should contact the various other pr

Re: (ice-9 base64)?

2022-08-16 Thread Blake Shaw
+1 for (ice-9 base64) On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 02:04 Maxime Devos wrote: > > On 16-08-2022 19:21, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 9:59 AM Maxime Devos > wrote: > >> >> On 16-08-2022 18:10, Aleix Conchillo Flaqué wrote: >&g

Re: (ice-9 base64)?

2022-08-16 Thread Maxime Devos
projects, would it make sense to include it in Guile's standard library? [...] If we do this, we should contact the various other projects to make them use (ice-9 base64). I think they could switch whenever they want (i.e. whenever this was added to Guile) or even not switch at all. Sure