From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dale P. Smith" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: What can I do to help? Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:27:18 -0400 Organization: Altus Technologies Corporation Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020930142718.554c1dc0.dsmith@altustech.com> References: <20020928105825.A8084@ns.jfreebies.com> <15765.54934.110668.553564@blauw.xs4all.nl> <20020930085654.A14784@ns.jfreebies.com> <20020930065753.0cfd62da.dsmith@altustech.com> <15768.37097.404406.330743@blauw.xs4all.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 1033410541 6700 127.0.0.1 (30 Sep 2002 18:29:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: wjb@abstractnonsense.com, 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 17w5Hv-0001jo-00 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 20:28:59 +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 17w5IB-0007f9-00; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:29:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17w5Ht-0007U6-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:28:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17w5Hp-0007Sy-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [208.40.56.34] (helo=borg.altus.cc) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17w5Ho-0007Sm-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:28:52 -0400 Original-Received: from sparky (firewall-user@cherry7.comerica.com [12.15.7.30]) by borg-eth1.altus.cc (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g8UISf016445; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:28:42 -0400 Original-To: hanwen@cs.uu.nl In-Reply-To: <15768.37097.404406.330743@blauw.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws28 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-debian-linux-gnu) 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:1388 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1388 On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:59:05 +0200 Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > 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. Yes, I do believe it is necessary. But it is a pain and it's ugly too. > 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. I did get expat working at one time. I'm not sure what changes need to be made for 1.6.0 Guile. Something else to consider is ssax: http://ssax.sourceforge.net/ -Dale -- Dale P. Smith Senior Systems Consultant, | Treasurer, Altus Technologies Corporation | Cleveland Linux Users Group dsmith@altustech.com | http://cleveland.lug.net 440-746-9000 x339 | _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel