Hi, There's been some discussion recently at the scheme-reports ML about a distributed module repository. Would a guildhall be necessary if there were a central R7RS module repository (duplication of effort)?
If so, what sort of interaction would there be (if any) between guildhall and an R7RS repository? Incidentally, a while back I emailed Andy about the name "Guild Hall", and thought it might be useful -- if only for posterity -- to reproduce that email here. Please see below: *** Hi Andy, Just poked my head into the guile-devel ML and noticed your recent post about Guild: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2011-06/msg00026.html This is very exciting news! So glad to hear there's movement in getting a cpan-alike going for Guile. :) Regarding the choice of name, I think "Guild" sounds pretty good: * goes well with "Guile" (and GNU), * has some nice connotations (craftsmanship, union), * will make for interesting styling of the future Guildhall website (wrought iron maybe?), and * "join the guild" & "contribute to the guild" have a nice ring to them. For better or worse, the name might make people think of [D&D](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_and_dragons) though. The only name I think I might like better is "Galley" (the kitchen area of a ship), because: * good analogy: a galley contains food (like a package repo contains packages) * like "guild", "galley" also goes nicely with the names "Guile" and "GNU" * it doesn't have the D&D feel to it that Guild/Guildhall might * naturally leads to some cool expressions: "You need package X? Have you checked the Galley?", "What's cookin' in the Galley today?" (that is, recent uploads), "if your package isn't deemed ship-shape (by a kwalitee-checking `ship-shape` script?), it won't be allowed in the galley", etc. * can get some mileage out of nautical/maritime (or Pirate! ;) ) theme for the Galley site * upload packages via a `stock-the-galley` tool? * ooh, various helper scripts named after "Love Boat" characters: Stubing, Bricker, Gopher, Isaac ...? (Oh no, did I actually type that out loud?) Arrrg matey, sorry for the bikeshedding! :) *** ---John
