From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Amirouche Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: How to make GNU Guile more successful Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 20:16:39 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2e4e293e-618e-809a-2eff-31576319ea61@gmx.de> <874lzod28a.fsf@web.de> <6deb1610-e31b-b5c2-e9c9-95a2289af216@gmx.de> <87mvdfs6mh.fsf@web.de> <7F3F093F-C8FF-4448-AE69-462E07446A7B@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488568719 30382 195.159.176.226 (3 Mar 2017 19:18:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 19:18:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 03 20:18:35 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cjsij-0007AU-J9 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:18:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59841 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjsip-0002LA-O2 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48026) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjsgr-0001MY-Jf for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:16:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjsgq-0005M2-PR for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:16:33 -0500 Original-Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:c:538::196]:41484) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjsgq-0005LN-JM for guile-user@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2017 14:16:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [IPv6:2a01:e35:2ef3:d930:ccb2:6bcc:b6fd:b600] (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e35:2ef3:d930:ccb2:6bcc:b6fd:b600]) (Authenticated sender: amirouche@hypermove.net) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 13619172094 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2017 20:16:29 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <7F3F093F-C8FF-4448-AE69-462E07446A7B@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4b98:c:538::196 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:13392 Archived-At: Le 03/03/2017 à 18:21, Matt Wette a écrit : >> On Mar 2, 2017, at 9:28 PM, Nala Ginrut wrote: >> 2. How to make guile platform more successful? >> I this case, let me ask a question, if we have guile-python3 >> (compatible with most of Python3 features), and provide more >> convenient FFI helper function to help bind more libraries in short >> time, is it possible to attract more people from Python land? Given >> we'll have good JIT compiler in the future. > Now that the C preprocessor in NYACC/C99 is more robust I could start looking at generating some sort of “FFI helper” functionality. I have been thinking about this problem on and off for a while. Completely automating things might be tough, but a “helper” would probably go a long way. > > Matt > > Are you aware of scheme-bytestructures [0] that's what we are using in guile-git. If you target that API to wrap C structs, it would be helpful. [0] https://github.com/TaylanUB/scheme-bytestructures