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"John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu> writes:

> Sure.  But this doesn't really answer my question.  If the wrapper for
> the library and the library itself are written in C, then that is
> something that must be compiled before it can be used with Guile, and
> may need to be ported if it contains platform-dependent bits.  So if
> you already have that dependency on compiled C code, why is it
> important that the parser/translator be written in Scheme instead of
> C?

Right, but then I'd put that library as part of the standard Gnome
set.  In other words, extend Gnome first, then provide the
conventional interface from Python.

Thomas

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