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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: Daniel Skarda <0rfelyus@ucw.cz>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax)
Date: 09 Oct 2002 19:15:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m33crfbhsj.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87u1jwi903.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org>

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

    Rob> Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
    >> On the other hand...  Rob has raised the question of whether we should
    >> be adding things to the core distro that don't strictly need to be
    >> there, so perhaps we should stop for a moment to consider our
    >> principles on this point.

    Rob> I not all that concerned with things that require an explicit
    Rob> activation.  I'm more concerned with any additions to what's
    Rob> visible in the core of guile (guile) and (guile-user) at
    Rob> startup, and more particularly, how much happens in
    Rob> ice-9/boot-9.scm, though to some extent that's an efficiency
    Rob> issue as much as a semantic issue.

But hang on, this is nothing to do with the size of the distro, is it?

    Rob> I do think it would be nice if eventually guile were
    Rob> separable to the extent that it was easy to install a
    Rob> "guile-base" that was perhaps much smaller than "guile-base +
    Rob> guile-foo + guile-bar", but I'm not saying I know how things
    Rob> should be broken up in to guile-base, guile-foo, and
    Rob> guile-bar...

So now I'm confused... should I view your comment "we'd be better off
moving in the direction of a smaller base" as a commit-stopper or not?

(Or did you mean "not in ice-9, but something like (tools infix) would
be fine"?)

        Neil



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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-09 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-03 11:26 Infix syntax Daniel Skarda
2002-10-05  8:55 ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-06  8:05   ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-08 21:51     ` Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax) Neil Jerram
2002-10-08 22:40       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-10-09  3:30       ` Rob Browning
2002-10-09 18:15         ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2002-10-09 20:17           ` Rob Browning
2002-10-10 12:20             ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-10 12:29       ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-13 14:28         ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-16 21:35           ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-19  4:50             ` tomas
2002-10-20 19:15               ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-21  9:36                 ` tomas
2002-10-21 18:21                 ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-19 22:17             ` Christopher Cramer
2002-10-20 19:05               ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-10 16:06       ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-10 17:12         ` Rob Browning
2002-10-10 18:46           ` Clinton Ebadi
2002-10-10 22:24           ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-10-13 15:09           ` Proposal for scope of core distro Neil Jerram
2002-10-17  0:10           ` Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax) Daniel Skarda
2002-10-18  7:24             ` Lynn Winebarger
2002-10-20 20:25               ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-10 18:08         ` Bill Gribble
2002-10-17  2:42           ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-13 14:27         ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-17  1:25           ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-19 10:56             ` Neil Jerram

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