From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jason R. Green" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile and GSL Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:50:50 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87ocj0qcha.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267987910 29662 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2010 18:51:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?= Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 07 19:51:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoLZl-0005gC-S0 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:51:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoLZk-0000iU-08 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:51:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NoLZK-0000bk-Fy for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:51:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44160 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NoLZJ-0000bG-Bn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:51:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoLZH-000184-OK for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:51:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com ([209.85.220.222]:32792) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NoLZH-00017v-Ez; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:51:11 -0500 Original-Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so1464700fxm.26 for ; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:51:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Z5NhO5LDLaX3grqbrDfnsVT6IEoRHEgNJypdQqh44+A=; b=puzUXzPVseqbwKHFEccisD4NJqQ3IMS+Q+o9ifFrbr8egnQuef3F5iKPC18sb/gj6L cpXYrhvXJdX6DSNXtgOAaJYprQttieFTN7UiBX292uoUCSmKOZIDaMvZhkW3Ash2Pz0H EwKt/UxmjX8FYVTBpROwFMMYpPhOyVoOt+ZVg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=nTG7CvBzVZUALCaOMXWxXlXLO4Is8LbT33N3ZVpsbj3fdx4nWJMcy8BT9n34Ochogj cjS/Dc9019X561Uwu234qhXI83hms1UYOFujGEacGAhtLdQax+H/OGBEFCgXaBiBTgHb khiFFlcTsowwU3AVky/2D3iNtL2dEfcz5TpTM= Original-Received: by 10.223.5.17 with SMTP id 17mr4757123fat.0.1267987870133; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:51:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87ocj0qcha.fsf@gnu.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 540e759a835e71c8 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10031 Archived-At: Hi, > I think having Guile bindings to GSL would be great. =A0Which line of > development are you referring to? Oh, I was referring to the development of Guile bindings for GSL, in genera= l. > FWIW, I think it would be great if these bindings were eventually > integrated in the GSL package proper. =A0To that end, you should make sur= e > to follow the GNU Coding Standards, to provide good test coverage and > documentation, and to make sure copyright can be assigned to the FSF. Thanks for your suggestions. I will do. > I suppose SRFI-4 homogeneous numeric vectors[*] would be a good fit for > GSL vectors and matrices, and you wouldn=92t need to create any new SMOB > type. =A0That said, I=92m sure you know GSL much better than me. =A0:-) The SRFI-4 homogeneous numeric vectors do seem to be designed for this purpose. My SMOB approach was entirely because of my familiarity with GSL's interface and my unfamiliarity with Guile. Thanks! Jason