From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Did you say "community"? What's that?!? (Episode 2) Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:16:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87k631700u.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160947025 12206 80.91.229.2 (15 Oct 2006 21:17:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:17:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 15 23:17:03 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZDLx-00066T-G4 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:17:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZDLw-0006eN-UM for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZDLr-0006Xn-UR for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GZDLq-0006V8-Rr for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZDLq-0006Ur-OG for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:16:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GZDUo-0007u2-F7 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 17:26:11 -0400 Original-Received: from laruns (host86-145-158-38.range86-145.btcentralplus.com [86.145.158.38]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B83840A420; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A396F6D4; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:16:17 +0100 (BST) Original-To: "Marco Maggi" In-Reply-To: (Marco Maggi's message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:34:07 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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:5606 Archived-At: "Marco Maggi" writes: > In the first episode I asked for some help to > complete my Guile binding to OpenSSL, which I have > to admit is not much fun to code. Out of interest, what happened with that, and how does it relate to the TLS bindings that Aaron Van Devender (IIRC) was working on over the summer? > Now I have written a binding[1] to GD[2] (the > graphics library etc.) which, you have to admit > IS somewhat funny. Why is it funny? > Most of the code is there, > with the exception of FreeType font text > functions: I cannot write code and test the > library with FreeType now, I need some help. > > So, if you are a Linux+GNU user, you may try to > complete it and then send me a patch or a C file > with the additional functions and a Scheme file > with some tests. Discussion can take place on the > 'gee-users' mailing list, hosted at GNA! I think this kind of offer/appeal is implicit in any free software project; I'm not sure you have to say it explicitly. > It is not difficult to code it: we are talking > about a direct interface to 3 functions: > > gdImageStringFT gdImageStringFTEx gdImageStringFTCircle > > it is "long", though, because there are many > options to be selected. But perhaps not all of those options need to be exposed to the Scheme binding? > To ease the browsing I have translated the > original GD documentation from (bad) HTML to > (nice) Texinfo source: That sounds like something to feed back to the upstream GD project. Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user