From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bernard Urban Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: scheme to C Date: 07 Oct 2002 10:39:49 +0200 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87adlqbq22.fsf@merceron.meteo.fr> References: <3D198B30.4D776935@carme.sect.mce.hw.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033980175 16919 127.0.0.1 (7 Oct 2002 08:42:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 08:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: peteri@carme.sect.mce.hw.ac.uk, guile-user@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17yTTV-0004Nt-00 for ; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 10:42:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17yTT9-0001P0-00; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 04:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17yTRt-0000tk-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 04:41:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17yTRX-0000nh-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 04:41:08 -0400 Original-Received: from cadillac.meteo.fr ([137.129.1.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17yTRW-0000n3-00 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 04:40:46 -0400 Original-Received: from merceron.meteo.fr (localhost.meteo.fr [127.0.0.1]) by cadillac.meteo.fr (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA27798; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 08:39:54 GMT Original-To: ttn@glug.org In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 46 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: guile-user-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 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:1158 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:1158 Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > From: "Mr. Peter Ivanyi" > 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 _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user