From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Han-Wen Nienhuys Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: What can I do to help? Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:59:05 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <15768.37097.404406.330743@blauw.xs4all.nl> References: <20020928105825.A8084@ns.jfreebies.com> <15765.54934.110668.553564@blauw.xs4all.nl> <20020930085654.A14784@ns.jfreebies.com> <20020930065753.0cfd62da.dsmith@altustech.com> Reply-To: hanwen@cs.uu.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033408584 32082 127.0.0.1 (30 Sep 2002 17:56:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Dr William Bland , guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17w4mM-0008LJ-00 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:56:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17w4mU-0000Il-00; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:56:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17w4lT-0000HF-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:55:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17w4lQ-0000Gy-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:55:27 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl ([194.109.127.138]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17w4lP-0000Gu-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 13:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from blauw.xs4all.nl (blauw.xs4all.nl [213.84.26.127]) by smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g8UHtDfj040942; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:55:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Dale P. Smith" In-Reply-To: <20020930065753.0cfd62da.dsmith@altustech.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.05 under Emacs 21.2.1 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1386 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1386 dsmith@altustech.com writes: > > Sounds like a good idea to me. Is anyone else working on this? (don't > > want to step on anyone's toes). Does anybody have any requests/advice for > > how it should/shouldn't be done? > > I *hope* this is just for interfacing with other systems. Any beguiled > program should be using s-expressions for it's config file format. > That's basically the whole point of using Guile, right? ;^) Of course. According to my overinflated ego, XML is just a complete pain to parse, to handle and generate. Unfortunately, it *is* becoming a standard, if we like it or not, and having no support for it raise the barrier for using GUILE (imo). For example people just keep asking me about XML file formats and MusicXML support for Lilypond. Having an XML lib in GUILE would make addressing this issue easier. BTW, I did read that there were bindings for expat. I don't know which of the systems (expat and libxml) makes most sense to use, though. You try to find out whether the old bindings still work with recent GUILE releases. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys | hanwen@cs.uu.nl | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel