From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: mod_lisp support for guile-www Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:16:14 +0100 Message-ID: <87zl2crh4h.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <873a0bwxdu.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <876355v4ni.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <877hphl1ws.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268455539 8648 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2010 04:45:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:45:39 +0000 (UTC) To: Guile User List Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 13 05:45:34 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 1NqJED-0004X9-9B for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:45:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqJEC-0002eE-Q4 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:45:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NqJE8-0002dt-Mp for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:45:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42568 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NqJE6-0002df-HY for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:45:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqJE5-0003Nb-6j for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: from host194-73-dynamic.16-79-r.retail.telecomitalia.it ([79.16.73.194]:44405 helo=ambire.localdomain) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NqJE4-0003NT-VX for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:45:25 -0500 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NqIlq-0002CW-Rw for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:16:14 +0100 In-Reply-To: <877hphl1ws.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:29:07 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:7672 Archived-At: () Neil Jerram () Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:29:07 +0000 Would it really be stepping on their toes? AFAICT they only use Guile for configuration, whereas Guile-WWW's purpose is to provide function to Guile applications. Serveez is a general protocol handling (big dishing loop around select(2)) framework, that you can use instead of Guile-WWW. However, it is not being maintained last time i checked, so any toes-stepping is just theoretical... I think my personal preference would be not to maintain it as an individual package, but to roll it into the Guile distribution. Would you be happy with that? Not really (this ties in with the license)... I note that Guile-WWW's license is GPLv3+, whereas the Guile distribution as a whole is LGPLv3+. I'm not sure if that's a problem or not; I think I remember hearing that there are already other pieces of code that came from guile-library and that have different licenses. I think it is better not to combine these for licensing reasons. I consciously chose GPLv3+ and would be disappointed to see Guile-WWW revert to any lesser license. Apart from the licensing, there is a good technical reason: separation allows Guile-WWW to be used by other Guile versions. (I'm still playing w/ Guile 1.4, for example.) thi