Re: GNU Guile 1.9.0 released (alpha)

2009-06-19 Thread Linas Vepstas
2009/6/19 Ludovic Courtès : > We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.9.0. FYI, 'make check' fails for me, with the blow. Should I ignore this, or dig into it? --linas Everything before the below seems to have passed. Then... Running alist.test Running and-let-star.test Running arbiters

Re: GNU Guile 1.9.0 released (alpha)

2009-06-19 Thread Linas Vepstas
2009/6/19 Ludovic Courtès : > We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.9.0. ... >  provide > feedback to `guile-de...@gnu.org'. Hmm. 'libunistring' is so new that not even debian has a package for it. Its also labelled as 'alpha'. You sure you want to/need to have a dependency on this? --li

GNU Guile 1.9.0 released (alpha)

2009-06-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 1.9.0. This is the first pre-release of what will eventually become the 2.0 release series. It provides many new noteworthy features, most notably the addition of a compiler and virtual machine. We encourage you to test them and provide feedback to `g

Re: Again on Windows support (2)

2009-06-19 Thread carlo.bramix
I upgraded the sources to the very latest ones. I did not change the scm_init_programs() prototype. Under Cygwin, compilation advanced much more with newer sources (yeah!), but it gave another error: GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ../meta/uninstalled-env guile-tools compile -o "ice-9/i18n. go" "ice-9/i18n.

Re: Again on Windows support (2)

2009-06-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"carlo.bramix" writes: > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/Carlo/guile/module' > /usr/bin/mkdir -p `dirname system/base/pmatch.go` > ../pre-inst-guile-env ../guile-tools compile -o "system/base/pmatch.go" > "/cygdrive/c/msys/1.0/home/Carlo/guile-svn/module/system/base/pmatch.scm" BTW, this is

Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?

2009-06-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Neil Jerram writes: > I'm really not sure. It's an interesting idea. And I think it > touches on the part of GNU philosophy that tries not to draw a firm > line between users and developers. Do you think it's worth asking > people on gnu-prog-discuss? Yes, why not. Would you like to do this?

Re: Again on Windows support (2)

2009-06-19 Thread Neil Jerram
Neil Jerram writes: > Can you remind me how you're compiling? Also is guile.exe really an Here I mean libguile/guile.exe^ Neil

Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?

2009-06-19 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Neil Jerram writes: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> I think GNU users, especially on non-GNU platforms (proprietary Unices, >>> etc.), have come to know what Gnulib is, and to appreciate it >>> (hopefully), which is why I thought it woul

Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?

2009-06-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Neil Jerram writes: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> I think GNU users, especially on non-GNU platforms (proprietary Unices, >> etc.), have come to know what Gnulib is, and to appreciate it >> (hopefully), which is why I thought it would make sense to mention it. > > Perhaps it shoul

Re: Again on Windows support (2)

2009-06-19 Thread Neil Jerram
"carlo.bramix" writes: > Hello, > this is the command that I gave me some results: > > $ ./pre-inst-guile-env ./libtool --mode=execute gdb --args libguile/guile.exe > -c '(display "foo")' > > As you can see I added "--args" option to GDB. Thanks, good point. > Since I had no idea about those u

Re: Again on Windows support (2)

2009-06-19 Thread Neil Jerram
"carlo.bramix" writes: > Hello, > this is what I get with this test: > > $ set - '(display "foo")' && echo "--${1}--" && echo "--${2}--" > --(display "foo")-- > Great, that is the expected output. Neil

Re: ongoing NEWS

2009-06-19 Thread Neil Jerram
Andreas Rottmann writes: > As long as nothing is set in stone, perhaps you want to consider > following the XDG basedir spec[0], which would suggest using something > under ~/.cache/ per default; this would make e.g. having reasonable > backup policies easier, as stuff under ~/.cache can be safel

Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?

2009-06-19 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > I think GNU users, especially on non-GNU platforms (proprietary Unices, > etc.), have come to know what Gnulib is, and to appreciate it > (hopefully), which is why I thought it would make sense to mention it. Perhaps it should go in a new section of the NE

Re: Again on Windows support (2)

2009-06-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Carlo, "carlo.bramix" writes: > : In procedure dynamic-func in expression (dynamic-call > "scm_init_programs" (dynamic-link "libguile")): > : No error Can you try to change the following lines in : --8<---cut here---start->8--- SCM_INTERNAL void scm_init

Re: Again on Windows support (2)

2009-06-19 Thread carlo.bramix
Hello, I tried the same thing with cygwin I got: $ ./pre-inst-guile -c '(display "foo")' argc=3 argv[0]=/home/Carlo/guile/libguile/.libs/guile argv[1]=-c argv[2]=(display "foo") foo But the compilation failed even under cygwin; here you are what happens: make[3]: Entering directory `/home/Carlo/

Re: Again on Windows support (2)

2009-06-19 Thread carlo.bramix
Hello, this is the command that I gave me some results: $ ./pre-inst-guile-env ./libtool --mode=execute gdb --args libguile/guile.exe -c '(display "foo")' As you can see I added "--args" option to GDB. Without "--args" option, GDB says: C:\msys\1.0\home\Carlo\guile/(display "foo"): Invalid argu

Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, master, updated. 782a82eed13abb64393f7acad92758ae191ce509

2009-06-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Andy Wingo writes: > On Thu 18 Jun 2009 22:28, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Andy Wingo writes: >> > + uniform-array->bytevector I would not export it from `(rnrs bytevector)' given that it has nothing to do with RnRS. >>> >>> No, but it does have

Re: Again on Windows support (2)

2009-06-19 Thread carlo.bramix
Hello, this is what I get with this test: $ set - '(display "foo")' && echo "--${1}--" && echo "--${2}--" --(display "foo")-- Sincerely, Carlo Bramini. -- Initial Header --- >From : "Neil Jerram" n...@ossau.uklinux.net To : "carlo.bramix" carlo.bra...@libero.

Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, master, updated. 782a82eed13abb64393f7acad92758ae191ce509

2009-06-19 Thread Andy Wingo
Howdy, On Thu 18 Jun 2009 22:28, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Andy Wingo writes: > + uniform-array->bytevector >>> >>> I would not export it from `(rnrs bytevector)' given that it has nothing >>> to do with RnRS. >> >> No, but it does have to with bytevectors... Where

Re: [Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, master, updated. fa1804e94394d92b9999eaee769653ed423474b3

2009-06-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! "Andy Wingo" writes: > +** Scheme expresssions may be commented out with #; > + > +#; comments out an entire expression. See the R6RS for more information. Is there any difference between SRFI-62 and R6RS here? If not, let's mention the former, which is older than the latter. Thanks, Ludo