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: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, wip-manual-2, updated. release_1-9-9-85-g0a864be Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:40:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87tyrhbn13.fsf@gnu.org> <87iq7xpluz.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271428212 4512 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2010 14:30:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:30:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Neil Jerram Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 16 16:30:11 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1O2mYc-00083t-Gd for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:30:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39112 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2mYb-00050A-ST for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O2mYX-0004yk-5l for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46698 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2mYV-0004xo-Gl for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 10:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2gxz-000622-85 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:34:52 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:55859 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2gxy-00060K-PB; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61214ABE95; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:31:54 -0400 (EDT) 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=E/vd0rivoX9YEkatZy6+HPWueJ4=; b=uZTqke XI4wWC8kvWVLtEwwNwt3fporBqbz1Bf7Vx4MRRSwNEhiGmdMa8c3ZKOMP4N8k9P1 ilnEaLsaxPzPDJL2q3UvTTlSBJU+/g/khfsyLvtbb5uGeIj+RE5RSqFnmzwZF4cB RCZEJkhByCSJiVck8KYh9BsK+L/VX9REqZeZA= 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=F+BoH2dNwxxGMX6lIOInt6PQ+vEQ+L2H TGPv8OmQehDDUf/3jTErYl/d8Xw82gbWRO7EMILMEzKdBaMpLVpO7uSGt3Rzym3U nyKvjoamNmkKozKU0sI+gSZmdW2URJL55Ie8/0/O+24VyNjfwnp2Gv4twbkG9Hi4 q93BV/CNuTg= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D4FFABE91; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:31:52 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote (unknown [83.202.39.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6C27ABE90; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:31:49 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87iq7xpluz.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:15:16 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 81F8C0E0-4932-11DF-92B5-D033EE7EF46B-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:10237 Archived-At: Hi Neil, I also think that wip-manual-2 is looking great! Your commit granularity is also really nice. On Mon 12 Apr 2010 02:15, Neil Jerram writes: > at a point in the not too distant future, the manual in wip-manual-2 > will be ready for pulling back into master, and publishing. >From my perspective each commit is ready! Why not just merge now? It's getting monotonically better :) That way when someone writes new docs, they have a better idea about how that fits in. For example I need to write something about "nil", and I'll look at your branch and see where you're going, but if it were merged already I could just look at the state of master and see where the right place would be. > Now that multiple language support is really starting to take off, > last night I was thinking that the first sentence "Guile is an > implementation of the Scheme programming language." is probably not > the right first sentence any more... > > I still think it's the right statement to make :) Guile _is_ and _has_ other things as well, but fundamentally it's a Scheme. IMO at least :) Happy hacking! Andy -- http://wingolog.org/