From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ng0 Subject: Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:30:51 +0000 Message-ID: <20170214093051.lril7mtynlnpm2oz@wasp> References: <87y3y5csr2.fsf@gnu.org> <8737fh6f02.fsf@dustycloud.org> <87a89pw31c.fsf@gnu.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]:36815) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdZQD-0002y1-KD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:29:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cdZQA-0003Tn-Ft for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:29:17 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87a89pw31c.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel On 17-02-14 10:10:55, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: >=20 > > One interesting change from when this was defined last year and this > > year is that the "extensible event loop" one has some candidates to p= ick > > from, via guile a-sync, fibers, and 8sync. > > > > However using any of those would require Shepherd being pinned to Gui= le > > 2.2. Maybe not a problem; it could be a branch, and Guile 2.2 stable > > looks not so far away. >=20 > Yes, I think it=E2=80=99d be reasonable to have Shepherd rely on 2.2. >=20 > In fact, we should start moving all of our infrastructure to 2.2. Ther= e > are still a couple of issues to be addressed I think, but now=E2=80=99s= the time > to explore. >=20 > Ludo=E2=80=99. >=20 Could that be a project as well, to move the guile parts to 2.2 or is this too lowkey and too little for GSoC? --=20 ng0 -- https://www.inventati.org/patternsinthechaos/