From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions) Date: 03 Oct 2002 00:15:10 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20020928105825.A8084@ns.jfreebies.com> <20021001171420.A21559@ns.jfreebies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033712902 1844 127.0.0.1 (4 Oct 2002 06:28:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 06:28:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17xLwi-0000TW-00 for ; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 08:28:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17xLgE-0001An-00; Fri, 04 Oct 2002 02:11:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wsyt-0003Ww-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 19:32:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17wsyr-0003Wk-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 19:32:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.21] helo=s1.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17wsyq-0003Wg-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Oct 2002 19:32:36 -0400 Original-Received: from portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (ppp-0-94.lond-b-1.access.uk.tiscali.com [80.40.0.94]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g92NWRX18267; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 00:32:27 +0100 Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net.ossau.uklinux.net (laruns.ossau.uklinux.net [192.168.1.3]) by portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (Postfix on SuSE Linux 7.2 (i386)) with ESMTP id 9E255171A; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 00:24:24 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Dr William Bland Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1421 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1421 >>>>> "William" == William Bland writes: William> I'm swaying back towards the idea of scripting Abiword William> with guile, since I use Abiword quite a bit and I can William> think of lots of neat things that guile scripts could do William> there. William> If anyone wants to try to talk me out of it though, I'm William> still open to comments ;-) Despite suggesting GnuCash, I would say that any work that is based in real needs will contributing to enriching the Guile world. And if you don't mind thinking about how your work can be generalized and modularized for purposes beyond Abiword specifically, it will almost certainly benefit other applications in the end anyway. So, best wishes! I'll take a look at Abiword so that I can play with your scripting when it is available. Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel