From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: linas@linas.org (Linas Vepstas) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: guile-lib things Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:44:07 -0500 Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040710044407.GW3998@backlot.linas.org> References: <1088100238.1855.207.camel@localhost> <87isdfpjzy.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> <20040627214307.GT3998@backlot.linas.org> <1088531031.1484.94.camel@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089434688 19203 80.91.224.253 (10 Jul 2004 04:44:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 04:44:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 10 06:44:43 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bj9j9-0000ZU-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:44:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bj9lL-00037i-CM for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:46:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bj9lG-00035j-Tf for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:46:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bj9lG-00035L-1X for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:46:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bj9lF-000358-VK for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:46:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [67.100.217.179] (helo=backlot.linas.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bj9ib-0007Ka-CT for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2004 00:44:09 -0400 Original-Received: by backlot.linas.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 948FB1BE79; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:44:07 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: ttn@glug.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:3323 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:3323 On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 06:48:29PM +0200, Thien-Thi Nguyen was heard to remark: > perhaps you (or whoever) could design guile-lib as the packaging system > for guile modules (both text and binary) and let interested programmers > do the rest. a good exercise would be to see how to fit SLIB into such > a system, the figure of merit being the low amount of glue code and/or > manual typing required. Great example. For years, GnuCash required users (classic lusers: non-programmers but early-linux-adopters) who were installing GnuCash for the first time ever to type some cryptic stuff as root to complete the install of slib. Later this got simplified to "run gnucash once as root" which is still pretty cryptic, as well as being a security exposure. --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user