Guile standard library, take 2 ("Arch")

Guile standard library, take 2 ("Arch")

[Andreas Rottmann]

Hi!

I just am working on a Guile-based project[0]), and I accumulate some
code that I consider of general usefulness. I intend to factor out all
that stuff, which includes an SRFI-35 implementation (see [1]), into a
separate GNU Arch archive. The code I accumulated so far (except the
SRFI-35 stuff) is quite rough around the edges, but I think it would
make sense to have it in one place (i.e. archive) with the Guile
std-lib. I now have quite some experience with Arch and could probably
offer tla-pqm[2] access to that archive, just in case others want to
add their generic Guile-stuff ;-)

So, now for the organizational part: Richard, you mentioned a savannah
project. AFAICS, there is nothing like that yet. For starting the
archive, I'd like to have the latest code of your guile-library and a
general OK to start things the Arch way. I consider an archive layout
*rougly* like this:

std--dev--0 # The code now in guile-library-0.1.tar.gz
experimental--dev--0 # Accumulation place; code not necessarily
                       accompanied with tests and documentation

There will be more branches once we decide to release the stuff.

Ah, and there you can learn about GNU Arch at http://wiki.gnuarch.org.

[0] http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9926584/ITLA
[1] http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2004-02/msg00104.html
[2] http://web.verbum.org/arch-pqm/


Cheers, Andy
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Re: Guile standard library, take 2 ("Arch")

[Richard Todd]

 > So, now for the organizational part: Richard, you mentioned a savannah
 > project. AFAICS, there is nothing like that yet. For starting the
 > archive, I'd like to have the latest code of your guile-library and a
 > general OK to start things the Arch way.

Sorry for the extreme lag--this is the first weekend in over a month I 
haven't been living at work.

I myself am a big tla fan, so I think it's a great idea.  FWIW in 
january when I was pushing for a std lib, I got the impression that what 
I wanted to offer was not really in line with what people wanted. 
Between that, a deluge of work, and the fact that Savannah never got 
back to me, the project's been on hold.  I have no problem whatsoever if 
you'd like to push it forward, and absorb what I had done.

There is a little more code than the last public release I had 
made...I'll see about sending you that later today.

Richard




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Re: Guile standard library, take 2 ("Arch")

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Andreas,

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 23:33, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> I just am working on a Guile-based project[0]), and I accumulate some
> code that I consider of general usefulness.

That describes all of us, no? ;)

>  I intend to factor out all that stuff [...] into a separate GNU Arch
>  archive.

Sweet! This could be one of those places where arch really helps out
development.

> I [...] could probably offer tla-pqm[2]  access to  that archive, just
>  in case others want to add their generic  Guile-stuff ;-)

Yes yes yes. Please do.

> So, now for the organizational part: Richard, you mentioned a savannah
> project. AFAICS, there is nothing like that yet.

They aren't approving new projects at the moment. We do need a new
project so we can sort out design / organizational issues without
polluting guile-user. Perhaps we can start a project on sourceforge for
this purpose, while savannah is getting its act together? (That path was
suggested by the FSF director -- seems it might be some time.)

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Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>


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Re: Guile standard library, take 2 ("Arch")

[Andreas Rottmann]

Richard Todd <richardt@vzavenue.net> writes:

>  > So, now for the organizational part: Richard, you mentioned a savannah
>  > project. AFAICS, there is nothing like that yet. For starting the
>  > archive, I'd like to have the latest code of your guile-library and a
>  > general OK to start things the Arch way.
>
> I myself am a big tla fan, so I think it's a great idea.  FWIW in
> january when I was pushing for a std lib, I got the impression that
> what I wanted to offer was not really in line with what people
> wanted. Between that, a deluge of work, and the fact that Savannah
> never got back to me, the project's been on hold.  I have no problem
> whatsoever if you'd like to push it forward, and absorb what I had
> done.
>
Fine.

> There is a little more code than the last public release I had
> made...I'll see about sending you that later today.
>
Since you are an Arch user, I'd prefer using that for code exchange,
i.e. once I have the archive ready, you branch off the --std category
and add your code. I can't really tell when the archive will be ready,
since I'm currently think about a way to conviniently integrate Arch's
build-config and automake, so you can pull (parts of) the library into
your project and distribute it with that, whith autodetection if the
parts you need are already installed, in which case the installed ones
will be used (that's very brief and rough, but I hope you get the
idea).

Andy
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