From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Modified load-path proposal Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:59:43 +0200 Organization: LAAS-CNRS Message-ID: <877jc7fggg.fsf@laas.fr> References: <878xwx5ld2.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <8764s0a7e6.fsf@laas.fr> <8764rzj8py.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87ach8bmdg.fsf@laas.fr> <87oe5o81xi.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87fyqzl0ku.fsf@laas.fr> <87k6g9b0mu.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87irvssjf5.fsf@laas.fr> <87r7af96ai.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129893772 2328 80.91.229.2 (21 Oct 2005 11:22:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:22:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Users Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 21 13:22:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESuxd-00081i-5L for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:21:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESuki-0003zx-4G for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESs6t-0006bw-9u for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:18:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESrtl-0004xb-Cq for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:05:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESrsK-0004tq-6G for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:03:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.93.0.15] (helo=laas.laas.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1ESrsI-0006Hr-5U for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 04:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: by laas.laas.fr (8.13.1/8.13.4) with SMTP id j9L83YcZ007402; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:03:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Neil Jerram X-URL: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 30 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Vend=E9miaire?= an 214 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEB1F5364 X-PGP-Key: http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu Mail-Followup-To: Neil Jerram , Guile Users In-Reply-To: <87r7af96ai.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:23:33 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang at CNRS-LAAS X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by laas.laas.fr id j9L83YcZ007402 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: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:4885 Archived-At: Neil Jerram writes: > ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Court=E8s) writes: >> What I'm saying in (1) is that the user should be able to choose these >> two (or three) directories at installation time. > > Perhaps, yes, but I don't (personally) want to get into the object/lib > file location debate yet, because I know very little about libtool and > other aspects of the issue, and because I believe that other Guile > developers believe that there are good reasons for the status quo. > Also it seems very unlikely that the outcome of that debate would > affect the details of a GUILE_SCHEME_DIR macro. Again, I was not saying that Guile should provide a mechanism to load shared objects from the right directory: we have identified this as another, *separate* issue. I'm just saying that libraries and Scheme files are two different things and that the user needs to be able to choose where to install them, just like they can do for any other GNU package. Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user