[ANN] Guile Hall Release (v0.2)

[ANN] Guile Hall Release (v0.2)

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hello,

I've just released Guile Hall 0.2.  It includes a number of fixes and
improvements:
- We now correctly wrap all guile module dependencies in generated Guix
  recipes
- We have an optional syntax for specifying configure time guile-module
  checks.
- `hall scan` and `hall clean` have become more convenient by virtue of
  the --skip parameter accepting directories
- We now use a fully-fledged test-runner to run unit tests
- Generated code is prettier to look at

I'd like to thank Catonano and Ricardo for either contributing directly
or providing code that resulted in above improvements.

On the roadmap we now have:
- support for the Guile Build System, which would be a first step
  towards having simple Guile projects that do not rely on autotools
- support for hall publish, which is meant as a tool to make
  contributing guile hall based projects to guix significantly easier by
  running automated sanity checks & generating complete guix recipes for
  addition to the guix repo.

You can get it with Guix after pulling the latest version with
$ guix package -i guile-hall

Otherwise you can get the code from
https://gitlab.com/a-sassmannshausen/guile-hall/, and build (hopefully)
using the traditional
$ autoreconf -vif && ./configure && make
dance.

What is Guile Hall?

From the README:

Hall is a command-line application and a set of Guile libraries that
allow you to quickly create and publish Guile projects.  It allows you
to transparently support the GNU build system, manage a project
hierarchy & provides tight coupling to Guix.

It's fundamental aim is to provide a black box that just works (tm)
for you so you distribute, manage & create guile projects.

This project is part of my overall goal of creating user-friendly basic
tooling & libraries for Guile to encourage newbies to start building
with Guile.

Best wishes,

Alex

Re: [ANN] Guile Hall Release (v0.2)

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

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Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> writes:
> This project is part of my overall goal of creating user-friendly basic
> tooling & libraries for Guile to encourage newbies to start building
> with Guile.

Very cool! Thank you!

Best wishes,
Arne

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Re: [ANN] Guile Hall Release (v0.2)

[Neil Jerram]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 16:33, Alex Sassmannshausen
<alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Otherwise you can get the code from
> https://gitlab.com/a-sassmannshausen/guile-hall/, and build (hopefully)

Hi Alex,

It's a bit of a side point, but I noticed that your org-mode README is
not properly formatted on the Gitlab site, and it looks like it would
be if you named it README.org.  Is that something you're already aware
of?

Thanks,
    Neil

Re: [ANN] Guile Hall Release (v0.2)

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hi Neil,

Neil Jerram writes:

> On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 16:33, Alex Sassmannshausen
> <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Otherwise you can get the code from
>> https://gitlab.com/a-sassmannshausen/guile-hall/, and build (hopefully)
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> It's a bit of a side point, but I noticed that your org-mode README is
> not properly formatted on the Gitlab site, and it looks like it would
> be if you named it README.org.  Is that something you're already aware
> of?

Indeed — the project generates itself, and thus far hall defaulted to
generating README files in org-mode.

I've just pushed a new set of commits that make hall default to
generating a REDAME.org file, and a symlink to from README to the
former.

So now this issue should be resolved for Hall itself too :-)

Thanks for the note!

Alex

Re: [ANN] Guile Hall Release (v0.2)

[Nala Ginrut]

Nice work!
We are moving forward to a bigger community for more contributions now!


Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> 于 2019年2月16日周六
21:05写道：

> Hi Neil,
>
> Neil Jerram writes:
>
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 16:33, Alex Sassmannshausen
> > <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> Otherwise you can get the code from
> >> https://gitlab.com/a-sassmannshausen/guile-hall/, and build (hopefully)
> >
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > It's a bit of a side point, but I noticed that your org-mode README is
> > not properly formatted on the Gitlab site, and it looks like it would
> > be if you named it README.org.  Is that something you're already aware
> > of?
>
> Indeed — the project generates itself, and thus far hall defaulted to
> generating README files in org-mode.
>
> I've just pushed a new set of commits that make hall default to
> generating a REDAME.org file, and a symlink to from README to the
> former.
>
> So now this issue should be resolved for Hall itself too :-)
>
> Thanks for the note!
>
> Alex
>
>

Re: [ANN] Guile Hall Release (v0.2)

[Mike Gran]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 05:18:02PM +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just released Guile Hall 0.2.  It includes a number of fixes and
> improvements:
> - We now correctly wrap all guile module dependencies in generated Guix
>   recipes
> - We have an optional syntax for specifying configure time guile-module
>   checks.
> - `hall scan` and `hall clean` have become more convenient by virtue of
>   the --skip parameter accepting directories
> - We now use a fully-fledged test-runner to run unit tests
> - Generated code is prettier to look at

Hi-

configure tells me that this depends on a (config) library.
Where do I get that?

Thanks
Mike Gran

Re: [ANN] Guile Hall Release (v0.2)

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hey Mike,

Mike Gran writes:

> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 05:18:02PM +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've just released Guile Hall 0.2.  It includes a number of fixes and
>> improvements:
>> - We now correctly wrap all guile module dependencies in generated Guix
>>   recipes
>> - We have an optional syntax for specifying configure time guile-module
>>   checks.
>> - `hall scan` and `hall clean` have become more convenient by virtue of
>>   the --skip parameter accepting directories
>> - We now use a fully-fledged test-runner to run unit tests
>> - Generated code is prettier to look at
>
> Hi-
>
> configure tells me that this depends on a (config) library.
> Where do I get that?

If you use Guix, it should work automatically.  In the absence of it you
can install guile-config from
https://gitlab.com/a-sassmannshausen/guile-config

Let me know if you run into problems!

Alex