From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Text collation Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:55:49 -0700 Message-ID: <87ac3kjhkq.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> References: <877j00cirs.fsf@laas.fr> <87hcz3mqhr.fsf@zip.com.au> <87r6x0qjyy.fsf@laas.fr> <877iyrbxj7.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87wt6rxy6z.fsf@laas.fr> <87ac3m2joj.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87slhclsj9.fsf@laas.fr> <87mz7kokad.fsf@raven.defaultvalue.org> <87ods0tf1m.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161806191 30842 80.91.229.2 (25 Oct 2006 19:56:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:56:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile-Devel Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 25 21:56:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gcor8-0002td-NC for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:56:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gcor8-0005hQ-9z for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gcoqt-0005dk-Oc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:55:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gcoqt-0005dL-AD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:55:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gcoqs-0005dD-Ox for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [70.85.129.156] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gcoqs-0007tE-RY for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:55:50 -0400 Original-Received: from omen.defaultvalue.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C015C90DDF; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from raven.defaultvalue.org (raven.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by omen.defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785E134004; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by raven.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6F7BC355173; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Neil Jerram In-Reply-To: <87ods0tf1m.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:40:21 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6185 Archived-At: Neil Jerram writes: >>> Personally, I would like Guile "core" to be much more modular than >>> what it is now. > > Me too. And I think this should mean separate libraries. > >> I don't really disagree. In particular, I think this is something we >> should definitely consider as we examine R6RS. > > Ah yes, R6RS. I've been following r6rs-discuss just enough to feel > worried about this! (My impression is that there's quite a lot of > change from R5RS, not just additions.) Although I still haven't looked at R6RS carefully yet, I've been wondering if this might be an opportunity to think about a Guile 2.0 release, one where we give ourselves more latitude to make disruptive changes, perhaps including R6RS support, the addition of any other major features, and any appropriate reorganizations (ice-9?). -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel