Hi, I'm relatively new to Guile and new to this list, but I saw this thread in the archives and I'd like to make some comments.
First, I think it would be nice to have a Guile wiki, in the likes of cliki.net. A publicly-editable reference place where people can share knowledge about Guile and Guile libraries and projects. Sure, having a centralized package manager/repository would be nice, but just having a common place where people can look up what libraries exist and where they can be downloaded would be nice. (I don't know how easy would it be to set up a wiki at the Guile website.) On the topic of package management, I think that, more important than a central repository, is a standard format in which to distribute packages for easy installation. I've never used guildhall, and I guess it defines something like this, but I think just having an installation command where you can pass the URL of a package to download and install (say, guild install http://some.url/somepackage.zip, or even a git URL) would already go a long way towards making it easier for people to use third-party libraries in Guile. (Or maybe package _names_ could be URLs pointing to an index in a well-defined format, which tells how to download each version of a package; then we could have even dependency management without a central repository. I'm pipe-dreaming here, though.) Best regards, Vítor De Araújo -- Vítor De Araújo http://inf.ufrgs.br/~vbuaraujo
