From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Evan Prodromou Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Help, Guidance for Guile Module Builders Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:43:36 -0600 Organization: GLUG (Guile Lovers Use Guile) http://www.glug.org/ Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <878z8ty8mf.fsf@tyrell.bad-people-of-the-future.san-francisco.ca.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016222207 23918 127.0.0.1 (15 Mar 2002 19:56:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:56:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([195.204.10.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16lxol-0006Dg-00 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:56:47 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [199.232.76.164]) by hermes.netfonds.no (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2FJu6M04738 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 20:56:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lxmm-0005x7-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:54:44 -0500 Original-Received: from tl3-20-254.tca.net ([208.180.20.254] helo=tyrell) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lxl6-0005pl-00 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:53:00 -0500 Original-Received: from evan by tyrell with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16lwge-0002N4-00 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:44:20 -0600 Original-To: guile-user X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1366 538C 1E7D 0093 C45B 1A50 A33C 1E7C 700A 0551 X-Revolutionary-Date: Quintidi, 25 Vento^se 210 5:22:06 -29167 Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-user-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:22 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:22 So, I'd like to assemble some kind of document that gives "recommended" coding suggestions for Guile modules -- especially those that aspire to participation in GUMM. If I was going to lay out a quick example, I'd say this... * Use autoconf, automake, and GNU make to build and install modules * Use texinfo to document module interfaces (Note: any semi-official way to "snarf" documentation from Scheme-only interfaces into texinfo form? From scheme-and-C combined modules?) * Use greg as a regression testing tool I'd also like to assemble a set of good Guile-related autoconf macros into a single package that would make Guile-related autoconf stuff easier. I'd love to get to the point where these macros would get included as part of the autoconf (or automake) standard distribution. Hey, GUILE _is_ the GNU extension language, after all. Shouldn't GNU build tools support using Guile? I mean really. Automake (written in Perl) already has Python support. Phooey! Lastly, I'd like to put together a (guile hello) module -- in the spirit of GNU hello -- that shows best practices for making a Guile module for wide distribution. Anyways, any suggestions, guidance, support or interest? ~ESP -- Evan Prodromou evan@glug.org _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user