From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Vehrs Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 07:01:11 +0100 Message-ID: <6deb1610-e31b-b5c2-e9c9-95a2289af216@gmx.de> References: <2e4e293e-618e-809a-2eff-31576319ea61@gmx.de> <874lzod28a.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487656903 1914 195.159.176.226 (21 Feb 2017 06:01:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 06:01:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.6.0 Cc: "guile-user@gnu.org" To: Arne Babenhauserheide Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 21 07:01:37 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cg3W3-0008Hw-9v for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 07:01:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42464 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cg3W8-0002iD-VS for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:01:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48185) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cg3Vn-0002i7-Da for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:01:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cg3Vk-0000Ob-EK for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:01:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:50176) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cg3Vk-0000OD-5l for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:01:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.37] ([88.75.184.70]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LezI3-1c0Ph93DJ9-00qgVq; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 07:01:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: <874lzod28a.fsf@web.de> X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:WVTDQ/1vArj70PMJG0isKqABhchhLeddr8Z2mlfPs8umivjUNh5 XtYnl79kodVw5LhY4Ug8xk+2HuE+CbYCJ40MKhJeETh+AyJ4lzMKE/1wc+2b1rMs/gYRKcJ z2tZ4+ycemWLcTQ8N5/IpieNVcu5Sdq12nYe2t0m2blUBA6YUlZyefdjB6mF7YXdLBpyK+k Ubyd2op/XbCh7yDEFr2dw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:k+S++HNoLmQ=:EUVjdNGWtzkuhwEF5C+eoz CDRiDcUvjG+/20ZApCr/RLuP4KwCacr6M1gEVxJQ6DVBHRCsptduYinMruhyqs7gE8xkqWYa8 LdXtTQekAkAz0DnqwscBb5L+QpdbBp+PmqeARd+7IBQ1r7R2uj12sAgnPi1AlpB7cnhGVcY2c 42m49bH2t0xRo1v8bQU1PZ7g8vvSt1pGmNR3a6AdRn/aDZGAxOjnbZxbEmGyYQOJ8AS/dde1q Gy+jdljtk0XFDLZ2C//ZPjuTEa9Db3K3N6vsl6+/rkdg08bkg9FWqM58K7FGhsDBvSZ2ewCsa sgHMurANvl4RslVyPWe3Bue3/RsxlNK2OtOrSVh0mtQuyGJou+UDZamrGfLn8owEMhEfQ6I1q Ahlo+Qh06Wv/Ec2A3RKQfDRn5tStqH1avqGKpyHTG5DPPODxDQNzKwp9FySzwVnarjTdRTLwd Edsl9iaM65oSz6gvta25EaVgGRV+NlRqJKQH9idC+zdKyU8gHmmU4gxjWPaInx6tTtqeoLMQg UC4JJwZsQ9kZD8BxU2Ek+tlgXfXZgon8vOEMaIwTlzIaS6S48+hfgA/4zMcdbNLXZvNZKx5GQ pCtuu2HoPJOe8Ixdhyr3nKryYKyZhNhmc5St285Gu8rue1WDCW+U1IOV57Loh2eT7bjjainJW GAkY6zIpHKUghi9NGEajn647gwtJxyPCjpodEQ7trLTHTASDDRJxWDbXDC/IFFGJMvWX5R6bA 0vL1JjYL0g4hEkJ2lfiZEaDyIPFttd/fWzntEF29oaQY7noCrDh6fSrFvHa7+sQw3QtPs1rc X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.21 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:13303 Archived-At: On 02/20/2017 09:41 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Michael Vehrs writes: > >> As a late-comer to this discussion, here are my two cents. The thing I >> miss most is a central package repository like Eggs Unlimited >> (http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html), or the >> Racket Package List (http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/), or CPAN, of course. >> Sure, a bespoke package manager might be nifty, but a single curated >> list of packages would be a game-changer. > In theory we have guildhall for this: https://github.com/ijp/guildhall In theory, yes. But there isn't actually very much available in the repository. > > In practice it does not provide a web interface for uploading packages. > > If you want to do something truly exciting, you could take wingos fibers > and build a high performance web interface for guildhall with them. High performance is not really important in this case. We are not talking about gazillions of npm packages. > > This is something I’d love to do but I fear that it’s not high enough in > my todo list that I’ll actually get it done.¹ > > Best wishes, > Arne > > ¹: I became Freenet Release Manager a few months ago. That took away the > last free time I could allocate to new challenging projects. If someone had a realistic plan of building something like that, I might be able to contribute. I am not going to tackle it alone. Regards Michael