From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.devel Subject: Re: What can I do to help? Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 11:34:42 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87d6qsztnh.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <20020928105825.A8084@ns.jfreebies.com> <15765.54934.110668.553564@blauw.xs4all.nl> <20020930085654.A14784@ns.jfreebies.com> <20020930233338.1DE6E4277F@cbbrowne.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033711262 28863 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 06:01:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 06:01:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Derek Atkins , Neil Jerram , Dr William Bland , Han-Wen Nienhuys , guile-devel@gnu.org, gnucash-devel@lists.gnucash.org 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 17xLWE-0007Ui-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:00:58 +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 17xKg4-00018V-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 01:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wmSU-0003xd-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wmSS-0003xJ-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:34:45 -0400 Original-Received: from n66644228.ipcdsl.net ([66.64.4.228] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wmSR-0003xF-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533DC35B4; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:34:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1505A1837; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:34:42 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: gnucash@cbbrowne.com In-Reply-To: <20020930233338.1DE6E4277F@cbbrowne.com> (gnucash@cbbrowne.com's message of "Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:33:38 -0400") Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-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:1418 gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.devel:9 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1418 gnucash@cbbrowne.com writes: > What we /already have/ are three relevant functions, and one variable: > gnc:depend, gnc:support, gnc:load, gnc:*load-path* > > (gnc:depend "foo.scm") > loads foo.scm, using gnc:load, if it has not yet been loaded. > > (gnc:support "foo.scm") > indicates that the present file implements "foo.scm", so that it'll > "satisfy" a gnc:depend call. > > (gnc:load "foo.scm") > tries to load foo.scm, and attempts to locate the file in all the > directories specified by gnc:*load-path* Ahh, right. Though in the long run, I had thought about suggesting that gnucash drop this stuff in favor of the normal guile module mechanisms. One of the main reasons I wrote the depend/support stuff in the first place was because gnucash wasn't using modules at all. Although you may be able to make a good argument for preserving some sort of "separate" gnucash namespace/load-path, though the counter argument would be that gnucash should just use sub-modules: (use-modules (gnucash extension foo)) (use-modules (gnucash extension bar)) (use-modules (gnucash extension baz)) or whatever. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel