> Hi! I'm interested in working on guile as part of the Google Summer of Code. > > I'm Paul Raccuglia, a Math/CS student at Haverford College (and > general freelance hacker). I'm pretty excited by Guile, I think it's a > cool project. I do a lot of Python coding, and I love interpreted > languages; Guile seems like a great way to combine the comfort of > interpreted languages with the general badassery of C. > > I've been talking with a friend who contributes to this project, and > we came up with some exciting ideas for working on Guile over the > summer. > > Currently I am thinking about: > > - A package manager (in the vein of apt-get) > I know this is one that's come up a bit. I was thinking of writing a > small web interface to browse packages, an aptitude style command-line > method for downloading, verifying the hashes, checking dependencies, > and then install the package(s) and an uninstall function as well. I > saw the proposal of working with dorodango; I might look at it, but > from what I saw of the code base, I thought it would make sense to try > to write a GUILE specific package-manager. >
I like this. And I like the idea about GUILE specific package-manager. Maybe you can learn something interesting from Nix, here is an introduction from Nix website: "Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell — they are built by functions that don’t have side-effects, and they never change after they have been built." http://nixos.org/nix/ > > - AOT Compiler: write an interface to GCC > I think this would be really cool. A good plan would be to use GCC, > because it's already pretty sophisticated and handles lots of > architectures. I would start by writing a scheme interface to GCC, and > then writing the compiler in scheme. > > I noticed a relevant (but now dead) project to write a GCC scheme > compiler : http://gna.org/projects/gsc ; they started in '05 and died > by '06, but I think it would help me think through the process to look > at what other people did. > Well~I like this too~Actually I'm interested in GUILE in the embedded device.So I'm looking for a good solution which could support nice efficient for GUILE to run on embedded device. The VM&bytecode maybe a good solution. But I'd like to see a GUILE compiler which compile some code to binary directly(if it's possible). I've tried Gambit-C, it's great. Can we do something alike for GUILE? -- GNU Powered it GPL Protected it GOD Blessed it HFG - NalaGinrut --hacker key-- v4sw7CUSMhw6ln6pr8OSFck4ma9u8MLSOFw3WDXGm7g/l8Li6e7t4TNGSb8AGORTDLMen6g6RASZOGCHPa28s1MIr4p-x hackerkey.com ---end key---
