From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: About Guile crypto support Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:14:53 +0100 Message-ID: <87pq07yotu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1359896146.2754.19.camel@Renee-desktop.suse> <871ucvof60.fsf@gnu.org> <1360032192.2754.61.camel@Renee-desktop.suse> <87mwvisqwj.fsf@gnu.org> <878v6yojxg.fsf@gnu.org> <87sj55bjxz.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwvdwhcs.fsf@pobox.com> <1360579612.97436.YahooMailNeo@web120404.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1360588500 4271 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2013 13:15:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:15:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Wingo , "guile-devel@gnu.org" To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 14:15:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U4tE8-0003SH-T2 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:15:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49482 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4tDp-0008IC-H5 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:15:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55178) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4tDm-0008Ht-LE for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:14:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4tDj-0002sB-JA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:14:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr ([192.134.164.104]:55957) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4tDj-0002rd-DQ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:14:55 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,643,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="1796300" Original-Received: from unknown (HELO pluto) ([193.50.110.135]) by mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA; 11 Feb 2013 14:04:55 +0100 X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 23 =?utf-8?Q?Pluvi=C3=B4se?= an 221 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: <1360579612.97436.YahooMailNeo@web120404.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:46:52 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 192.134.164.104 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:15728 Archived-At: Mike Gran skribis: > Right now, the Guile project does a poor job of testing Guile on > multiple platforms.=C2=A0=C2=A0Hydra does check that i686-linux, x86_64-l= inux > and x86_64-darwin compile, but, that's about the extent of multi-platform > testing.=C2=A0 (There are Hydra jobs for Cygwin and Solaris,=C2=A0but, th= ey are > broken; and FreeBSD hasn't built successfully in a year or so on 2.0) Actually --without-threads builds work on FreeBSD, but there=E2=80=99s a kn= own problem in the tracker about threading there. I see the Darwin machines at hydra.nixos.org are currently down, I=E2=80=99= ll ping the admins (Darwin builds have been fairly reliable over the years.) I admit that Solaris and Cygwin are more problematic, though I did some work in the past to help with those. > Guile has some talented hackers, and maybe they could write a better > dynamic linker than libtool, but, history suggests that Guile might > lose interest in maintaining such code for non-GNU systems. I tend to agree. This is typically where ltdl is supposed to help. Ludo=E2=80=99.