Re: Release time!

[Ian Price <ianprice90@googlemail.com>]

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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court^[$(D+2^[(Bs) writes:

>> * Figure out a way to make Guildhall modules that will be overridden by
>>   a matching module in core guile (if it exists).  This is important for
>>   SRFIs.  Ian Price's Guildhall repository contains portable
>>   implementions of several SRFIs that might become part of core Guile in
>>   the future, and the core versions should take priority.
>
> Could guildhall use SRFI-0 to check whether a given SRFI is already
> provided by the host^[$B!G^[(Bs Guile, and determine based on that whether to
> install its own version?

Well, maybe I could hack something that uses srfi-0, but it sounds kinda
ugly, and liable to break if a guile upgrade changed the features it exported.

Right now, a package can declare multiple 'provides' so that you can
e.g. require srfi-1 and it would pull in the appropriate package. But as
it stands, the provides are somewhat orthogonal to how the code gets
installed.

Andreas,
Guildhall is a friendly fork of Dorodango, so what do you think about
adding this sort of thing?

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