From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:10:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87a89pw31c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y3y5csr2.fsf@gnu.org> <8737fh6f02.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54706) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdZ9G-0006ed-Vh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:11:49 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdZ91-0000x8-Ot for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:11:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8737fh6f02.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Mon, 13 Feb 2017 13:57:01 -0600") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: guix-devel Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > One interesting change from when this was defined last year and this > year is that the "extensible event loop" one has some candidates to pick > from, via guile a-sync, fibers, and 8sync. > > However using any of those would require Shepherd being pinned to Guile > 2.2. Maybe not a problem; it could be a branch, and Guile 2.2 stable > looks not so far away. Yes, I think it=E2=80=99d be reasonable to have Shepherd rely on 2.2. In fact, we should start moving all of our infrastructure to 2.2. There are still a couple of issues to be addressed I think, but now=E2=80=99s the= time to explore. Ludo=E2=80=99.