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: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:15:38 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2e4e293e-618e-809a-2eff-31576319ea61@gmx.de> <874lzod28a.fsf@web.de> <6deb1610-e31b-b5c2-e9c9-95a2289af216@gmx.de> 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 1487700992 27341 195.159.176.226 (21 Feb 2017 18:16:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:16:32 +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 Tue Feb 21 19:16:24 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 1cgEz6-00067D-Fm for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:16:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgEzC-00083S-50 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgEyX-00081H-3P for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:15:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgEyV-0003Kd-Ip for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:15:44 -0500 Original-Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:c:538::196]:48994) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cgEyV-0003KF-Bu for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:15:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [IPv6:2a01:e35:2ef3:d930:bdc4:d6ec:636:6090] (unknown [IPv6:2a01:e35:2ef3:d930:bdc4:d6ec:636:6090]) (Authenticated sender: amirouche@hypermove.net) by relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0CF241720C2 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2017 19:15:40 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <6deb1610-e31b-b5c2-e9c9-95a2289af216@gmx.de> 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:13306 Archived-At: Le 21/02/2017 à 07:01, Michael Vehrs a écrit : > On 02/20/2017 09:41 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> Michael Vehrs writes: >> >>> As a late-comer to this discussion, here are my two cents. The thing I >>> miss most is a central package repository like Eggs Unlimited >>> (http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html), or the >>> Racket Package List (http://pkgs.racket-lang.org/), or CPAN, of course. >>> Sure, a bespoke package manager might be nifty, but a single curated >>> list of packages would be a game-changer. >> In theory we have guildhall for this: https://github.com/ijp/guildhall > > In theory, yes. But there isn't actually very much available in the > repository. > >> >> In practice it does not provide a web interface for uploading packages. >> >> If you want to do something truly exciting, you could take wingos fibers >> and build a high performance web interface for guildhall with them. > > High performance is not really important in this case. We are not > talking about gazillions of npm packages. > >> >> This is something I’d love to do but I fear that it’s not high enough in >> my todo list that I’ll actually get it done.¹ >> >> Best wishes, >> Arne >> >> ¹: I became Freenet Release Manager a few months ago. That took away the >> last free time I could allocate to new challenging projects. > > If someone had a realistic plan of building something like that, I > might be able to contribute. I am not going to tackle it alone. > What's the status of guildhall, does it work? where are the latest changes? amirouche ~ amz3