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? (conclusions) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:26:05 -0400 Organization: Altus Technologies Corporation Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20021004082605.17748f88.dsmith@altustech.com> References: <20020928105825.A8084@ns.jfreebies.com> <20021001171420.A21559@ns.jfreebies.com> <87it0jfnrg.fsf@prodromou.san-francisco.ca.us> 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 1033734690 20929 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 12:31:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:31:30 +0000 (UTC) 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 17xRc8-0005RP-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:31:28 +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 17xRYt-0006wC-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xRYl-0006vD-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17xRYh-0006uf-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [208.40.56.34] (helo=borg.altus.cc) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xRYg-0006ub-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from sparky (oh-strongsvillecadent1-1aa-14.clvhoh.adelphia.net [68.69.208.14]) by borg-eth1.altus.cc (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g94CRr006109 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 2002 08:27:53 -0400 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87it0jfnrg.fsf@prodromou.san-francisco.ca.us> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws52 (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:1431 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1431 On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:14:27 -0400 Evan Prodromou wrote: > >>>>> "WB" == William Bland writes: > > WB> If anyone wants to try to talk me out of it though, I'm still > WB> open to comments ;-) > > Dr. Bland, > > It's absolutely criminal that you could come and ask for a job to do > and get turned away. There is so, so, so much to do. Shame on us! > > I think there are a ton of projects that need to be done for Guile > that are not yet done. For example: > > * A SAX2 parser GOOPS interface and drivers for libxml, expat, > xerces, etc. (Whoever told you not to make it easy for Guile > developers to use XML is a bonehead, by the way. XML will never > be s-expressions, but that doesn't mean that using it isn't > important!) That must have been me. Yes, I'm a bonehead a lot. Sorry. I had visions of Guile using xml as a doc format (and other horrors) and responded without really reading your message. Being able to interface with other systems using xml is a good thing and needs to be done. There is this stuff called soap that uses xml for rpc's (iirc). -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