Re: Hosting for Guile-PHP

[Jon Herron <jon.herron@yahoo.com>]

Andy -

  I did get in contact with Savannah last night and put in a new project request, which is still pending.  Hopefully that won't take too long though.

Thanks,

Jon



----- Original Message ----
From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Jon Herron <jon.herron@yahoo.com>; guile-devel@gnu.org
Sent: Wed, April 14, 2010 3:12:47 PM
Subject: Re: Hosting for Guile-PHP

Hi Jon,

On Wed 14 Apr 2010 11:00, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Jon Herron <jon.herron@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>>   Sure, that sounds fine to me.  I definitely understand wanting to
>> promote Scheme over PHP from a GNU point of view, for me personally I
>> have to use PHP at work and any potential chance to slide some Scheme
>> in the mix would be welcome (to me at least).
>
> Yeah, I think that’s typically something that people choosing to use
> Guile-PHP would enjoy.

That's true, though a lot of people like programming in PHP. If we were
to give them something valuable, that would be nice from a
distributed-and-sandboxed-web-services point of view ;-)

>> I chose Guile as my Scheme implementation mainly due to the compiler
>> tower, example language implementations and mention of a PHP
>> translator under the cool ideas section.  I understand this was not a
>> firm desire, nor guarantee of acceptance on the projects behalf.  I
>> have not regretted my decision to use Guile one bit, and plan to
>> continue Guile-PHP as time permits.  If a merge is beneficial in the
>> future that's great, if not no hard feelings.
>
> OK.

I don't recall, did we answer your question about hosting? (Sorry, I've
been spotty these last few days.) We talked about it and thought that
implementing PHP could get quite large, so an external project would be
better. Have you contacted savannah to set up a project?

>>   With that being said, is there another area of the project that
>> would be beneficial for me to look at?  I've seen various mentions of
>> the ECMAScript front-end but not sure what is needed there.  Other
>> bugs? Desired libraries?
>
> First it needs to be fixed within the next few weeks because it fails to
> compile even simple expressions (see ‘ecmascript.test’).  But maybe
> that’s on Andy’s to-do list?  :-)

Ahem ;) Are you presuming to add items to _my_ to-do list? ;-)

I would like to finish implementing the spec. Mostly it's the library
that's left to do, but there are some syntactic bits too.

Andy
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