Re: Minimal Guile

2011-12-21 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, > To keep it GNU, I looked around to see what library-style GNU > solutions exist for treating an archive file like a filesystem. > Oddly, no good documented (L)GPL GNU options dealing with tar, cpio, > pax, or 'ar' in an API way.  But, there is a solution for .iso > files: libiso9660 from

Re: Minimal Guile

2011-12-21 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed 21 Dec 2011 11:03, Mike Gran writes: >> A while ago I was looking at the idea of minimizing the number of >> files needed to ship Guile as a dependency.  At the time, I thought >> that one could retool the build so that it produced >> - a tar.gz of the distributable header files >> - libgu

Re: Minimal Guile

2011-12-21 Thread Mike Gran
> From: Mike Gran > > Hi- > > Re point 2: hard to distribute. >   > A while ago I was looking at the idea of minimizing the number of > files needed to ship Guile as a dependency.  At the time, I thought > that one could retool the build so that it produced > - a tar.gz of the distributable head

Re: Minimal Guile

2011-12-21 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Noah, On Mon 19 Dec 2011 23:32, Noah Lavine 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,

Re: a stale link

2011-12-21 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 20 Dec 2011 22:53, Bruno Haible writes: > http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/anon-cvs.html contains a hyperlink > "read this page" to http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/repository.html > which doesn't exist. > > I think it ought to be replaced with > http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/downloa

Re: goops web page

2011-12-21 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 20 Dec 2011 22:53, Bruno Haible writes: > A web search for guile-oop pointed me to > http://www.gnu.org/software/goops/ Ew :) > goops is part of the guile 2.0 distribution. This web page appears to be > hopelessly out of date. Why not replace it with a forward to > http://www.gnu.org/s

Re: summary: lilypond, lambda, and local-eval

2011-12-21 Thread Ian Hulin
Hi Andy and Guile developers, As the original OP about (local-eval) getting withdrawn please accept my thanks for the excellent work going on in these threads. I still follow it even though I barely understand a lot of the stuff that's being discussed. Thanks a million, guys, and compliments of