+1 to that. I do the same thing in my own projects. Guix does it, too.

- Dave

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 12:11 PM Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <
aconchillo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In many projects I've been copying Göran Weinholt's base64 implementation
> and I've also seen it in other projects, would it make sense to include it
> in Guile's standard library?
>
> I guess it's hard to know where to draw a line and different languages do
> different things. I actually like Golang's approach where they provide a
> bunch of base libraries (web, crypto, etc.) and it seems that's where Guile
> was going by including a web library.You could always use a different
> implementation if it existed.
>
> Anyways, I think (ice-9 base64) would be a nice addition.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Aleix
>
>