From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.linux.debian.ports.hppa Subject: Re: Removal of hppa support Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:30:15 -0500 Message-ID: References: <38f5a373-58b0-6f13-003f-bed60c4de731@physik.fu-berlin.de> <87eevkgaw7.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="70147"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: debian-hppa@lists.debian.org To: guile-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:gQsd2Nfw+IYI5e+7s3j4a/39tes= Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 27 18:44:35 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iw8R9-000IDf-1w for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:44:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48786 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iw8R8-0004HP-6W for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:44:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47910) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iw8DV-0005bz-Pf for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:30:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iw8DU-0004dJ-Rp for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:30:29 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:56868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iw8DU-0004c9-LB for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:30:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iw8DT-0002tA-0q for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:30:27 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:44:25 -0500 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:20345 gmane.linux.debian.ports.hppa:7960 Archived-At: > Initially in Guile I planned to use GNU Lightning, in part because of > its great platform support. However it turned out to not be the right > thing, and reluctantly I ended up doing something that was more like a > rewrite than a refactor. [...] > If someone would like to write an IA64 backend for Lightening, I would So, do I understand correctly that Light*e*ning is the name you chose for Guile's rewrite of GNU Lightning? Do you think it could be useful separately from Guile? Stefan