From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tanel Tammet Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Roadmap and goals? Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:21:47 +0300 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3CBD68DB.2CC96A4F@staff.ttu.ee> 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 1019046625 11771 127.0.0.1 (17 Apr 2002 12:30:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16xoZs-00033k-00 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:30:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xoZb-0000H1-00; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from staff.ttu.ee ([193.40.254.217]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xoWq-00007t-00 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 08:27:16 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 12821 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2002 12:27:10 -0000 Original-Received: from tammet.cc.ttu.ee (HELO staff.ttu.ee) (193.40.254.59) by staff.ttu.ee with SMTP; 17 Apr 2002 12:27:10 -0000 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: et,en,cs Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 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:400 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:400 Hi, This here looks like a troll, but it isn't. I am sure the same question is asked now and then. I looked through the site and part of email archives, but could not find answers to my questions there. Hence I am trying my luck with the mailing list :-) Basically, I am wondering if anybody could tell me something about the Guile development goals and roadmap: what are the short-term goals, what are the long-term goals, what are the priorities (I mean concrete issues, not just the abstract goal of being a good extension language). I am asking since I was considering whether I could possibly help with the development work. To do that, I'd have to understand where is the Guile development moving, what are the prioritized goals, crucial principles, etc. What would be the projects inside Guile where a person like me could possibly help. Some background: I am the original author of the Hobbit Scheme->C compiler for SCM and although I did not work on improving it for some years, I have recently taken it up again and worked a little on Hobbit and SCM with Aubrey. I plan to continue making small improvements for Hobbit for SCM. I can understand the scope and goals of SCM and what are the issues with which I could possibly help. I am pretty happy with SCM. I have looked briefly into bigloo and other systems, and there are many cool things here and there. However, I cannot really understand (*) what is the driving force behind Guile and (*) what are the specific benefits of using Guile. For example, why exactly should somebody use Guile instead of SCM or Bigloo: what are the specific advantages and what is the downside. Why not use just SCM or Bigloo (they are faster, you know :-) There have to be answers to this question, just that I do not know the answers. In my brief encounters with other people using scheme these issues have come up now and then. I guess it would benefit not only me but the Guile development and acceptance on a wider scale if such guides, policies, roadmaps etc existed and were easy to locate. Regards, Tanel Tammet _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel