Hi Noah, On Mon 19 Dec 2011 23:32, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lav...@gmail.com> writes:
> I was thinking about it though, and I think there is another thing > that is causing a lot of this "bloat": all of the Scheme modules we > are adding. Do you really think so? It's more installed size, but it doesn't affect runtime speed, runtime size, or compile-time portability. > There is a tension here, because having lots of modules is very > important for using Guile as a language to write programs in. But when > it is used as an extension to other languages, most of them are not > useful. A point of clarification: as an extension language, Guile is meant to be a language to extend programs, not a language to extend other languages. > So if I were dreaming and not thinking about how hard it is to > write code, I would get a system that lets me pick which modules I > want to distribute and bundle them up with libguile into a package > that can be distributed and built on its own. It sounds more interesting to bundle up a stripped-down build product, rather than a stripped-down source package. YMMV of course :) Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
