Hi Arne!

2016-02-22 16:08 GMT+01:00 Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>:

> Hi,
>
> In january there was a thread here about Guildhall with the notion
>
> > I encourage you to hack on Guildhall to make it more usable for your
> > needs.
>
> I finished my PhD last month, so I have some freed-up time — and I would
> like to use some of it to hack on Guildhall and make it ready for
> inclusion in Guile.
>
> However there’s one stumbling block: I don’t see what’s actually missing
> from it. So I want to be bold and request something:
>
>
> Please tell me what’s missing in Guildhall, so I can implement it.
>
>
I'm glad that you wrote about this topic.
I admit that I haven't used neither Guildhall nor Guix, but from what I've
seen in other languages, I think that while perhaps some packages depend on
additional toolchains, I think this doesn't concern the pure Guile/Scheme
modules, it is absolutely sane to have a "language-specific package
manager".
I think that perhaps it would need to focus on community -- I would like to
have a place where I could keep my modules easily for me and other people
to use -- similarly to github, but focused specifically on Guile/Scheme. I

I think it would be awesome if there were some statistics concerning the
popularity of modules, as well as an on-site possibility to report bugs and
surprising behaviors.

Another thing that I believe would be cool is if there was absolutely no
need to install the packages -- that the invocation of (use-modules) would
fetch them (with dependencies) from the remote server (and verified as
needed).

A controversial thing is whether to use the Guile module system or R6RS. I
personally don't like the latter too much, but perhaps it is a question of
integrating it nicely with Emacs (after all, it would be a big win for the
whole Scheme community if the package manager could be ported to other
implementations, and the packages could be shared -- as in the case of SNOW
packages[1])

Best regards,
Panicz

[1] http://snow.iro.umontreal.ca/