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From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: summer of code ideas
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:25:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vczur5cf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 548800.13980.qm@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com

On Mon, Mar 07 2011, Mike Gran wrote:

[...]

> A similar idea.
>
> Define a syntax for use-modules to pull modules off the net, something 
> like
>
>    (use-modules (url://a-url.com library module #:optional a-rev-number))
>

FWIW, i think this is a bad idea.  It intermingles two concerns that are
othogonal, namely installing a package and using it.  I don't want to
have to specify in my code where a module comes from.  This is how
PLaneT currently works, and their experience has been so negative that
they're redesigning the whole thing now.

jao
-- 
Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac Man affected us
as kids, we would all be running around in darkened rooms, munching
magic pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music.
 - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-07 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-07 20:23 summer of code ideas Mike Gran
2011-03-07 21:25 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz [this message]
2011-03-08  1:10   ` Mark H Weaver
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-08  1:45 Mike Gran
2011-03-07 19:51 Andy Wingo
2011-03-07 20:12 ` Noah Lavine
2011-03-07 21:33   ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-07 22:11     ` Noah Lavine
2011-03-07 22:27       ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-07 22:37         ` Noah Lavine
2011-03-08 13:00           ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-03-07 20:40 ` Noah Lavine
2011-03-07 20:46   ` Andy Wingo
2011-03-07 21:27     ` Ludovic Courtès

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