Re: Guilr-Lib - New maintainer

2024-04-01 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Congratulations Maxim, you will definitely be a great maintainer! Thank you David for your work on Guile-lib. It's a library that I've come to use more and more as time has gone on! Best wishes, Alex David Pirotte writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > Guilers, > > Please hail at the new g

Re: Guile Potluck 2021

2021-02-20 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Mike, Great to see you organise to continue this hallowed tradition! :-) I would love to participate by cheating a little and submitting a new release of Guile Hall, which is overdue and should happen between 1 and 6 March. Best wishes, Alex Mike Gran writes: > Hello All- > > In celebrat

Re: New module proposal: argp

2020-04-28 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Dale Mellor writes: > Hello, > >I've recently sent up updates to the (ice-9 getopt-long) module as needed > for my mcron program, and I want to follow that up > with a higher-level argument parser in a new module called argp (it will work > along similar lines to glibc's argp). > >

Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile

2019-10-18 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) writes: > This is very sad. I appreciate the enormous time investments of all > of you for Guile. When you make a decision, I hope you understand the > other. > > Regards, > Florian Many incredibly thoughtful emails have been sent to the mailing list on this

Re: conflicts in the gnu project now affect guile

2019-10-18 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Mikhail, Mikhail Kryshen writes: > Andy, > > If you've long had issues with RMS, then why do you still want to be > with GNU? You don't have to participate in GNU to be part of the free > software movement. Is it that you see GNU as an important platform for > your political activism? Is i

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2019-02-06 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > >> Hi Amirouche >> >> Amirouche Boubekki writes: >> >>> Le mer. 6 févr. 2019 à 14:47, Alex Sassmannshausen >>> a écrit : >>> >>> > - Janneke mentioned the new guile

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2019-02-06 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Amirouche Amirouche Boubekki writes: > Le mer. 6 févr. 2019 à 14:47, Alex Sassmannshausen > a écrit : > > > - Janneke mentioned the new guile build system in guix for simpler > >guile packages and I think that's pretty great. Likewise there was > >

Re: FOSDEM 2019

2019-02-06 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > >> Mikael Djurfeldt writes: >> >>> It was a great experience and joy for me to meet some of you at FOSDEM >>> 2019. Thank you all! >> >> Thank you, too! >> >>> Now a piece of advice. >>> >>> Everyone who works with Guile knows

Re: ping: Fixes for guile.m4

2019-01-21 Thread alex sassmannshausen
Hi Mike, Thanks for taking the time to test, and for the background info. I hadn't considered the bug tracker! I'll see if we can get it in there :) Cheers, Alex On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, 14:42 Mike Gran On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:25:17AM +0000, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: > > H

ping: Fixes for guile.m4

2019-01-21 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, In December Aleix proposed the following patch to address an issue in guile.m4 whereby guile programs using the autotools infrastructure would not find guile and other tools on distributions such as Ubuntu: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2018-12/msg2.htm Guile-Hall, whi

Re: FOSDEM 2019 (ACTION: please register or mail)

2018-08-24 Thread alex sassmannshausen
I'm in. On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, 11:23 Pjotr Prins, wrote: > Who wants to come to a separate 2 day GNU Guix event? > > That is the Thursday Jan 31st and/or Friday Feb 1st right before > FOSDEM. I.e., 4 days of hacker nirvana. > > FOSDEM is really great. Look at last year's schedule for Saturday > >

Re: The Message Papers Part I: On Social Interaction

2017-11-06 Thread alex sassmannshausen
wishes, Alex Sassmannshausen On 7 Nov 2017 5:05 a.m., "Sutter, Benjamin" < benjaminsut...@aurora-schools.org> wrote: > Hello, Guilers. I'm a relatively new face for most likely all of you, if > you've seen me at all (I'm bms_ on IRC, which is where I've been

GNU Hackers Meeting 2017 call for presentations!

2017-04-28 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello! The GNU Hackers Meeting is looking for presentations for this years programme! Find out all you need to know, and/or submit your proposal at https://www.gnu.org/ghm/programme.html . The deadline for submissions is 4 June 2017. The meeting will take place 24 - 27 August in Germany. The m

Re: FOSDEM social dinner

2017-01-31 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
amirouche writes: > On 29/01/2017 17:15, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >> Alex Sassmannshausen writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> To confirm, I've now placed a reservation for Saturday 4 February at >>> 19:30 at a Lebanese restaurant called A

Re: FOSDEM social dinner

2017-01-20 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
ndees: Leo, Catonano, Amirouche, Efraim, Tomáš, Thomas, Tobias, Christopher Baines, Manolis, Ludo, Ricardo, Matias and myself. Let me know if I missed you, or if you have questions! For now, until then :-) Alex Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > Hello, > > Guile has a dev room at FOSDE

FOSDEM social dinner

2017-01-06 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Guile has a dev room at FOSDEM this year — for a whole day! The dev room will be on Sunday. Whilst organising it, we had the idea that it would be fun to have a Guile/Guix user & dev dinner on the Saturday evening. I'm hereby officially opening registration for that :-D I have not chose

Re: FOSDEM 2017 Schedule is there!

2016-12-19 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Pjotr Prins writes: > Check it out K.3.201 - looks awesome! > > https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/day/saturday/ Indeed, most excellent! Looking forward to this greatly :-) Alex

Getopt-long patch

2016-02-14 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
ign copyright. >From ca68d19528a21fec4bde269be261eff123709ac4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Sassmannshausen Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:16:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Make getopt-long throw errors if requested. Getopt-long thus far simply prints a user message and exits if it encounters an error in either the option specification,

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Mike Gerwitz writes: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 14:23:29 -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: [...] >> In the meanwhile we've had some conversations about this, see David >> Thompson's RFC on a Guile project generator: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2015-09/msg00042.html

Re: Ideas for a Guile tutorial to go with the new site

2015-12-16 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Chris, Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> Hello! >> >> So I've been thinking a bit about what a friendly "intro" tutorial would >> look like that could fit with the direction the site is heading. I came >> up with some ideas I wanted to capture before I t

Re: The Guile community we could have (or: solving Worse is More Accessible)

2015-09-26 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
+1 for your thoughts too Chris! Alex Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer writes: > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> Luis Felipe López Acevedo writes: >> Really the design is really well made, no problem with that, I just want to be sure that we won't disappoint the main audience and >>>

Re: New logo and website design proposal

2015-09-16 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Beautiful! Like Chris, I love the demographically agnostic, yet incredibly inviting drawings. I also love the overall crisp and modern feel to the whole site including the proposed new logos. Fantastic :-) Alex Luis Felipe López Acevedo writes: > Hello list, > > As part of the Guile project

Re: FOSDEM 2016

2015-09-01 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Pjotr over on guix-devel has proposed we organise a Guile developer track at the next FOSDEM (January 2016). There seems to be a pretty good reception on the guix mailing lists, and we're still looking for ideas for talks, etc. If you'd be interested in giving a talk, check out https:

Re: Welcome Mark as new co-maintainer

2014-05-30 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
What a lovely email summarizing, at the very least, exactly how I feel about Guile and its community. Belatedly, congrats on the appointment! Best wishes, Alex Mark H Weaver writes: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> I’m happy to announce that Mark H. Weaver has now been officially >>

Re: GNU Guile 2.0.10 released

2014-03-18 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Congratulations to all involved in this release — it sounds great and I'm looking forward to playing with it's features! All the best, Alex Ludovic Courtès writes: > We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.0.10, the next maintenance > release for the 2.0.x stable series. > > This releas

Re: GNU Guile 2.0.9 released

2013-04-10 Thread alex sassmannshausen
Sound very exciting. Congratulations on the great work that continues to be done on Guile. Best wishes, Alex On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > We are pleased to announce GNU Guile release 2.0.9, the next maintenance > release for the 2.0.x stable series. > > This rele