bug#48530: Guile Mode

["Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org>]

On Thu, May 20 2021, Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski wrote:

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> - take in charge the support of Geiser for Guile ?

you're certainly most welcome to contribute to geiser and geiser-guile
in the usual ways, via the gitlab group and repos, mailing list, irc
channel, etc.  unlike some other geiser subprojects, they're not
unmaintained (said as their original author and still maintainer :)),

it's true we would greatly benefit from further collaboration for new
features (like the ones you suggest below), because i haven't had much
time for the project during the last years, so i've been focused on bug
fixing.

after a few patches that make it into the repo, i'd be very glad to add
you to the gitlab group with write permissions and even nominate you as
the main maintainer.  the recent split of the monolithic repo into
per-scheme projects was in fact an attempt to attrack new maintainers
that could focus on specific scheme implementations.

this reminds me of the geiser-racket story: racket was, with guile, the
best supported scheme in geiser, but geiser-racket was eventually
ignored by the racket community when a new racket-mode appeared that
started from zero reimplementing lots of things that were already in
geiser.  i'm not sad about racket-mode taking over (i am sure it is
because it's a better package than geiser-racket, so that's fair), but
about the effort wasted.  if you guys finally decide to start a separate
guile-mode project, just make sure to steal what we already have in
geiser that might be useful.  i'll be happy to help and pass on the
baton! :)

cheers,
jao
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