From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: summer of code ideas Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:46:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299530900 28544 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2011 20:48:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 20:48:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Noah Lavine Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 07 21:48:14 2011 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 1PwhLi-0002Tt-FW for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:48:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36881 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwhLh-00017S-UJ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:48:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36450 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwhKL-0000cC-3F for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:46:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwhKE-0005ca-QQ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:46:43 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:57756 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PwhKE-0005c5-Nm for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:46:42 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AC24844; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:48:05 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=8wHOsmjnOg+urofzV0qTFUw3T6w=; b=O61Y5c j5XwoO94ez+rP2a6XiqjVgeAyoJg9qqOMDKJyzlrCBM7ktKAqkEYW2Xk1EunquVJ s1xYJa9Qv1ZI/0bfIalj/CoOWFdSgjC1PJ+3NX8rucRGzEElC7dvokNVXqqkRRd4 ig4cKz2jtPQP3F5Vl94IWrh8n5a4mjnxxU0xE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=OFtdMZp9zlU6uJRPllYad1Jaj8/Q3XT+ dUMwa/Vw/VkV66vcLIXt86/yNFMThqWHM0xXI0ea1sW+pPeTovV3riaSdVk+yS1I 1UzIsbNZXq/B6sVWiYw4zWUMxws6w55btxDXzgCFIdIlFptac3BbbyMPJkpWFwa2 Kc7yCBsSS44= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC0D4843; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:48:03 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from unquote.localdomain (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 282A14842; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:47:58 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Noah Lavine's message of "Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:40:12 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 327A1F44-48FC-11E0-8048-B86344810875-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 64.74.157.62 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:11815 Archived-At: On Mon 07 Mar 2011 21:40, Noah Lavine writes: > Also, about your CPAN for guile (CGAN?) idea - it seems like with what > you said about stowfs that what you're looking for is similar to Nix, > but used to install Guile packages. (www.nixos.org) Yes indeed! > Do you think it would be useful to just compile a version of Nix with > a different root directory, make some Guile bindings, and use that? I want any user that has Guile to be able to install packages off the net easily. Requiring them to use Nix is probably too much (though Nix is indeed impressive, as Ludovic will tell you! :-)) Andy -- http://wingolog.org/