On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:54:23PM +0100, Ludovic Court?s wrote:
Hello Guilers!
Next week, on February 16th, is the first anniversary of Guile 2.0!
Like all great events, it ought to be celebrated.
So, here???s a suggestion: let???s write neat hacks that integrate Guile
with some other piece of software, preferably GNU packages. Examples
include extending GCC or GDB extension in Guile, work on Mike???s
Zile-on-Guile, enhanced Guile support in GNU Make, and Hurd file systems
written in Guile.
Of course, like all quick hacks, these will essentially be proofs of
concept, but hey, perhaps some will eventually become actual software
packages?
If you???re up to the challenge, you???re welcome to announce your intent
here. On Feb. 16th, we???ll collect the list of neat hacks and let the
world know!
One small GNU package to hack is Gnubik. This is the GNU answer to the Rubik
Cube,
and the web page is at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnubik Thanks primarily to Dale Mellor, it already has a Guile interface. However, it works by wrapping the implementation, which is in C. I have some ideas to turn it around, such that the low level stuff is implemented in Guile, with the display stuff remaining in C, and just serving as a view into the cube. If this was done, then it would make the extent of things that could be done on the Guile side a lot more extensive. That way mathematicians who are C illiterate could produce some wierd and wonderful things like 4+ dimensional hypercubes. If anyone wants to help do this, let me know and I'll give a hand wherever it's required. J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://keys.gnupg.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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