Guile Module Documentation

2016-01-09 Thread Alex Weiss
I've written a couple of guile modules. What is the best way to generate documentation using the procedures docstrings?

Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 11:35:13AM +0100, Fabio Pesari wrote: > Package managers have been immensely successful in increasing the > popularity of programming languages - think about Perl's CPAN or Ruby's > Gem. But Guile doesn't a package manager, and that in my opinion slows > down its adoption. >

Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Fabio Pesari writes: > The way I see it: > > * Guile ships with guile-guix (a library that implements much of Guix' > package management capabilities, but not the Guix program) and a > (very small) Guile package manager which depends on guile-guix The package management capabilities provide

Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"Thompson, David" skribis: > Many of us in the Guile community, including myself, are not very > interested in language-specific package managers because they are > problematic: > > - They put burden on the user to make sure the right toolchain is > available to build/install things (GCC and co

Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Fabio Pesari
On 01/09/2016 04:30 PM, Thompson, David wrote: > > I don't think Guix is a good fit here, because there's simply no way > around the fact that Guix packages *must* contain the full dependency > graph for build-time and runtime dependencies. There's no way that > you could use, say, the Guile or GC

Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Fabio Pesari
On 01/09/2016 03:35 PM, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > > Can you explain what a Guile specific fork of guix will bring over guix? See the last part of this post. >> User should be able to upload packages but each package should be >> carefully reviewed (possibly by the community itself). > > This i

Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Fabio Pesari
Package managers have been immensely successful in increasing the popularity of programming languages - think about Perl's CPAN or Ruby's Gem. But Guile doesn't a package manager, and that in my opinion slows down its adoption. The Guix repos distribute a lot of useful Guile libraries (like guile-

Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Fabio Pesari
On 01/09/2016 02:05 PM, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > Héllo, Hi! > There is a package manager https://github.com/ijp/guildhall with a > package > repository with automatic package publishing without review. There are many package managers actually, and most of them were abandoned by their maintai

Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Thompson, David
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Fabio Pesari wrote: > Package managers have been immensely successful in increasing the > popularity of programming languages - think about Perl's CPAN or Ruby's > Gem. But Guile doesn't a package manager, and that in my opinion slows > down its adoption. Many of u

Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On 2016-01-09 15:06, Fabio Pesari wrote: On 01/09/2016 02:05 PM, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: There is a package manager https://github.com/ijp/guildhall with a package repository with automatic package publishing without review. Asking users to install a separate package manager might work in so

Re: Guix as a Guile package manager

2016-01-09 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Héllo, On 2016-01-09 11:35, Fabio Pesari wrote: Package managers have been immensely successful in increasing the popularity of programming languages - think about Perl's CPAN or Ruby's Gem. But Guile doesn't a package manager, and that in my opinion slows down its adoption. There is a package

Re: How can I tell guile to shut up? ;)

2016-01-09 Thread Tobias Reithmaier
Hi, what's the status with an --quite Option or -Wfoo Warning-Options?I need to suppress the Warnings like: ;;; note: source file /usr/share/guile/2.0/sxml/ssax/input-parse.scm