From: Bernard Urban <Bernard.Urban@meteo.fr>
Cc: peteri@carme.sect.mce.hw.ac.uk, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scheme to C
Date: 07 Oct 2002 10:39:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87adlqbq22.fsf@merceron.meteo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17xY0B-0005X2-00@giblet>
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@giblet.glug.org> writes:
> From: "Mr. Peter Ivanyi" <peteri@carme.sect.mce.hw.ac.uk>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:36:48 +0100
>
> Reading some past messages from the list, I have the impression that
> there used to be a compiler from scheme to C (hobbit ?) but it is
> broken now. Can somebody tell me how it is broken, does not work at
> all, etc ... ? How difficult to make hobbit work again ? Does it
> require major changes ?
>
> these questions were asked by the compiler author himself (revisiting
> guile after a few years abroad), but the answers are still not known.
> however, they are *knowable* and probably continued 1.4.1.x hacking will
> teach me enough to provide them (hobbit revival is the explicitly
> intended side effect of answering these questions, after all).
As a guile-hobbit maintainer, I can say that there is a 1.4.1 version,
functioning with guile of the same release. I use it regularly. At the
time of this last release (end 2000), I was unable to put the
sources to a public guile ftp server, so very few people use this
version, but now this may be possible ?
I have even filled forms for the FSF to turn the copyright to them, as
I have no short term plan to upgrade hobbit to be 1.6 compatible. This
because I have no need to upgrade to a more recent guile version so far.
>
> i was hoping current crop of guile mungers could help, but now i'm more
> realistic about their abilities and inclinations. if you would like to
> help, i suggest a hands-on approach: build {guile,hobbit}-1.3.4, run
> them, take notes, try hobbit-1.3.4 w/ guile-1.4.x, take notes on what
> breaks, post notes for discussion.
>
> perhaps a small subset of programs works w/ hobbit-1.3.4/guile-1.4.x.
> if so, we can collect them under examples/compilation/, add appropriate
> configure.in checks for hobbit and augment the "make installcheck" flow.
>
> thi
(I catch this mail in the middle of a vacation, so do not expect a fast
answer if interested in the 1.4.1 sources.)
--
Bernard Urban
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-07 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-26 9:36 scheme to C Mr. Peter Ivanyi
2002-10-04 19:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-10-07 8:39 ` Bernard Urban [this message]
2002-10-07 13:19 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-07 17:08 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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