From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Minimal Guile Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:05:17 -0500 Message-ID: <87aa6lskj6.fsf@pobox.com> References: <1324326921.17612.YahooMailNeo@web37905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1324483391.16920.YahooMailNeo@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1324501534 21737 80.91.229.12 (21 Dec 2011 21:05:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 21 22:05:27 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RdTLr-00027p-7w for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:05:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34249 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdTLq-0007oB-8x for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:05:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59874) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdTLn-0007nt-2F for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:05:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdTLl-00047W-CX for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:05:22 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([74.115.168.62]:63456 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdTLl-00047I-62 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:05:21 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F61585B2; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:05:20 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=nwHX5/ZEptWY euBASr7EEbsZK7g=; b=DkvBuafLMYSAyVS02FwTGX2k3+cUv+eGCxCkf+zRi4vA pMNWkKjaBXnNfEIs0Iy1GWBLs/ZtpS+FwjaE37bZ97Hvf6qV8yyPjjKawRwjo3Bn UynnVfQSyNktSlVhCuLgKyfbghVJt+3W3uQphpU6jIxCjVfhCeHws5nTcXB21iM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=ElkHPJ 8kGCybO57EpNs0SmFOhikA4tR5z4ey3GwtllB0KXAMyGkX3w85NiTMCx39oUHlhE 5cDv44Ln/JSm9sxfVa6HA/iL9qRX7vnoBjokYWcroLTElNTaPhGCJiST6DCMOivf HcpmcsChG9UzrVEOdFDrZNgCMKDcLbnxXqfe0= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C0B85B1; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:05:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from badger (unknown [184.174.165.119]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1AE3D85B0; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:05:20 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <1324483391.16920.YahooMailNeo@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:03:11 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 7DA1453E-2C17-11E1-84FD-65B1DE995924-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 74.115.168.62 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:13179 Archived-At: On Wed 21 Dec 2011 11:03, Mike Gran writes: >> A while ago I was looking at the idea of minimizing the number of >> files needed to ship Guile as a dependency.=C2=A0 At the time, I thought >> that one could retool the build so that it produced >> - a tar.gz of the distributable header files >> - libguile=C2=A0as a monolithic .so or .dll with no dependencies. >> =C2=A0 Dependencies would be wrapped into the monolithic .so or .dll. >> - all the compiled .go files as a tar file >> - and a Guile executable that used both of the above > > I'm replying to myself.=C2=A0 LOL.=C2=A0 But I agree with myself that this > sounds like a good idea to me. That's good that you're replying to yourself, because I (for one) overlooked this part of your message. Too much mail lately! :-) > I think as soon as I get a spare cycle, I'm going to make an > experimental branch where all the core=C2=A0.scm and .go files are in > a single archive file that will act like a read-only filesystem. Sounds like an interesting experiment. If you find yourself getting close to something workable, feel free to make a new branch in Guile git. Happy hacking, Andy --=20 http://wingolog.org/