From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nalaginrut Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile Lua Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:50:49 +0800 Organization: HFG Message-ID: <1353387049.5256.64.camel@Renee-desktop.suse> References: <87d2zc6vla.fsf@googlemail.com> <1353292230.5256.23.camel@Renee-desktop.suse> <87lidxti7b.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353387061 16983 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2012 04:51:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:51:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= , Ian Price Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 05:51:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tafnj-0000ui-FV for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:51:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TafnZ-0007pm-7r for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:51:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56345) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TafnW-0007pI-HS for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:50:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TafnV-0004g3-N7 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:50:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.220.41]:45682) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TafnU-0004fj-7o; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:50:56 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id fa10so4095583pad.0 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:50:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:subject:from:to:cc:date:in-reply-to:references :organization:content-type:x-mailer:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=0r9soLmlKv/DrfqIAQVR6IbGzyP3eJWaNL3nOyN4eeo=; b=rNGmqoa46YSb2Vytr8HqQqACfa5CG9uQCKiHYOupM5Fm5lasvEUaO1KjnwJwNFZ/0H 8aENA4x3Qej48Iaf4GgidTya9q9/s4DDAL6Y/Pb+ZqOHwPlHFbXxm2dfpyDX12SJqwm7 m19HxyRF+AGNeUxj4RnHENoQsDQcwnG/AWrlgtWLXEyx+lD88PUkLQbT+CF0nNwFyU8j RgMuA2QOgFbn1TEG1e7qjaGfKI+6qwyvQnNv6rUqSaNB+9djigm89HVyF9MhriVEnCv7 m9ZL/qd/20F0SNK6sAwzsQSsocBoY7ZoK4x+IoBz+igIWL0R1f4DnlTIlYmIOOPaByhX RbBg== Original-Received: by 10.66.75.232 with SMTP id f8mr4711314paw.23.1353387054763; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:50:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [147.2.147.112] ([61.14.130.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id uh9sm7388470pbc.5.2012.11.19.20.50.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:50:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87lidxti7b.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.220.41 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:15213 Archived-At: On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 22:07 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi! > > nalaginrut skribis: > > > I'd like to know what work should the maintainer take? As I know there's > > some work has been done, but it didn't merge into stable-2.0. What's the > > rest work? Does it work now? > > I think the first task for you (congratulations! ;-)) or anyone else > interested will be to check out the branch, build it, assess it, and > tell us what it’s current status is. > > Then, assuming it’s in a good shape, one would have to try running > actual Lua programs, in search of bugs. Along the way, these bugs would > have to be fixed, and the test suite augmented accordingly. > > Then the fine points regarding multi-language integration will have to > be sorted out. The manual will have to be updated. > > When all this is in place, we can consider merging the branch. I > wouldn’t want to merge a half-baked front-end. > > WDYT? > > Ludo’. > > @ijp: thanks for the info ;-) @ludo: Thanks! I'll try to do it follow your steps. Besides, do we have the final conclusion for the multi-lang choosing approach, say, --lang=lua/elisp or #lang lua or a script: guile-lua/guile-elisp... whatever. IIRC, ijp raised such a topic, but it seems no conclusion. I ask this because there should be an easy way to test some big code segment written in other language.