From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guile as a Settings Format Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:34:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87pqyjtx1i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hbjvvc9a.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1279546517 11959 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2010 13:35:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:35:17 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 19 15:35:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OaqUy-0005Xg-QJ for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:35:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34751 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OaqUy-0006zo-Aa for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42808 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OaqUs-0006zZ-57 for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OaqUq-0004v0-RJ for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:35:06 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OaqUq-0004uk-Ln for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OaqUm-0005Ri-2R for guile-user@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:35:00 +0200 Original-Received: from acces.bordeaux.inria.fr ([193.50.110.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:35:00 +0200 Original-Received: from ludo by acces.bordeaux.inria.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:35:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: acces.bordeaux.inria.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 1 Thermidor an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dxuyO7K9dnPChoNXuRH4IAfBlPc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:7994 Archived-At: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > Luiji Maryo writes: > >> Is it acceptable to use Guile as a settings file format or is another >> format, such as XML, preferred by the GNU community? > > Many GNU packages use custom settings file formats. However, Guile is a > good tool for customization (of which “settings” is a subset), notably > because it then programs that use it to be “blended” together. ^ `-- allows Ludo'.