Re: Guile-Config 0.1 Released

[Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>]

Hi Barry,

Barry Fishman writes:

> On 2016-02-17 08:43:43 +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
>> Arne Babenhauserheide writes:
>>> Is there a recommended way to use this in my project when my users don’t
>>> use Guix?
>>
>> You should be able to do the usual GNU installation procedure of:
>> - download tarball
>> - untar
>> - run ./configure && make && make install
>>
>> You may need to install some additional build tools for this, but
>> outside build tools the only dependency should be guile.
>>
>> HTH, let me know if you run into problems with that :-)
>
> Is there a public repository for this software?

As per my original email, the public repository is currently hosted on
github at:
  https://github.com/a-sassmannshausen/guile-config

> The configure fails on any guile 2.1. Part of the problem seems to be
> that configure script does not like to put stuff under 2.2 but just 2.0.

huh.  Interesting.  Thanks for testing, I'll look into that in the near
future.

> After installing in 2.0.11, I found that the Texinfo file had:
>
> @dircategory Guile
> @direntry
> * Guile Config: (Config).       Declarative program configuration
> @end direntry
>
> but the info file is not Config or Config.info, but conf.info.

Quite right — that is an oversight on my part due to some recent
namespace changing.  I've made a new release tarball and uploaded it to
the site.

The URL for it is:
  http://alex.pompo.co/software/guile-config-0.1.1.tar.gz

> As a general side note, not specific to this modules:
>
> [...]

I certainly sympathise with the perspective that packaging Guile modules
is currently… cumbersome.  Unfortunately I do not feel qualified to say
much beyond that, as I don't understand build systems well enough.

I'll leave to others, more knowledgeable than I am, to comment on these
thoughts.

Thanks for testing, and for your feedback!

Best wishes,
Alex