From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: GSoC ideas Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 23:02:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87io101t3s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160206113802.GA17867@thebird.nl> <87mvre2eyz.fsf@gnu.org> <56BC7496.8020409@gmail.com> <8760x5gpif.fsf@inria.fr> <20160302101227.GF2815@var.bordeaux.inria.fr> <87a8mgefcy.fsf@gnu.org> <56D9A512.1070003@gmail.com> 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]:54132) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acKHI-0001T6-EK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 17:02:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acKHH-0001K4-Kd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 17:02:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <56D9A512.1070003@gmail.com> (Manolis Ragkousis's message of "Fri, 4 Mar 2016 17:09:06 +0200") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Manolis Ragkousis Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, bug-hurd@gnu.org, Samuel Thibault Manolis Ragkousis skribis: > On 03/02/16 23:31, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: [...] >> Other options include calling out to the =E2=80=98settrans=E2=80=99 comm= and (inelegant >> IMO), writing Guile bindings for some of the Hurd libraries, and/or some >> sort of a MiG in Scheme (neat but takes some time!). > > We could have a guile wrapper for the =E2=80=98settrans=E2=80=99 command = that could > cover our needs. Isn't this feasible? WDYT? It=E2=80=99s definitely feasible, and probably the easiest option. It scor= es poorly in terms of elegance though. :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.