Define-syntax at docs.racket-lang.org/quick/ reminds me of drd's Sam On Jan 27, 2012 10:06 AM, "Alvaro Tejero Cantero" <alv...@minin.es> wrote:
> Racket, formerly known as PLT Scheme, seems to receive a lot of > attention from users and developers: > > http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RacketLanguage > > http://racket-lang.org/ > > > -รก. > > > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:42, Joris van der Hoeven > <vdhoe...@texmacs.org> wrote: > > Hi Karl, > > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:46:48PM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > >> I'm wondering if anyone is presently working on patching TeXmacs so > that it > >> will build and run with Guile 2.0. In the Guile-2.0 NEWS file, I see > that > >> "The GH interface (deprecated in version 1.6, 2001) was removed." > TeXmacs > >> fails to build because it's looking for <guile/gh.h> which is no longer > >> present. > > > > Yes, I am aware of the problem, but I have not really been working on it > yet. > > Guile induces a *lot* of problems at the moment and it is not even clear > that > > we really want to go all the way to Guile 2.*. On the one hand, it is > true that > > Guile 2.0 includes a much faster byte code interpreter. On the other > hand though, > > Guile is growing more and more maximalistic: the number of dependencies > is > > going out of hand, making portability a major concern. Also, Guile 2.0 > > now relies on Boehm GC for garbage collection; having used this garbage > > collector in another project, I am very suspicious and fear that this > move > > may introduce subtle bugs and make code harder to debug. I have discussed > > these issues on the GNU developers list and the Guile developers are > willing > > to make things a little bit better. Yet, it is not clear at all that this > > will be enough. Massimiliano has started to look for possible > replacements > > of Guile. Another solution would be to stick to an old version, include > > the sources with TeXmacs and take care of maintainance issues ourselves. > > > > Best wishes, --Joris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Texmacs-dev mailing list > > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev >
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