Hi, I'd like to fix the SLIB issue in 1.8.3.
SLIB 3a4 works perfectly well with 1.8. The thing is that `(ice-9 slib)' is of no use. Instead of using it, I followed the SLIB instructions: $ guile -l /usr/share/slib/init/guile.init guile> (require 'primes) guile> (prime? 13) #t Note that the first time you use SLIB, it will create the library catalog, which requires write access to its directory. Our `(ice-9 slib)' is essentially a duplicate of `guile.init'. So I think what we really want in `(ice-9 slib)' is this (as already suggested by Greg [0]): (define-module (ice-9 slib)) (load-from-path "guile.init") Distributions could easily patch it so that it works out of the box. On Debian, that would become: (define-module (ice-9 slib)) (load "/usr/share/slib/init/guile.init") Now, it is true that `guile.init' contains too many Guile-specific things that ought to be maintained out of SLIB, as Mikael noted [1], but for the time being, I suggest that we just stick to this approach. FWIW, other `.init' files that come with SLIB are quite long as well. Ok to rewrite `(ice-9 slib)' as shown above? Thanks, Ludovic. [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/6644 [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/6645 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
