Re: Contributions to “Guile Studio”

2019-10-30 Thread spectrumgomas
Guile Studio is a great idea but If I had to make a wish it would be Mike Gran will continue to develop The Gano Project http://gano.sourceforge.net/ and from there someone would make some kind of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Turbo_C

Re: Contributions to “Guile Studio”

2019-10-29 Thread Nala Ginrut
I just want to say thank you to all the contributors! I'm trying to do some efforts to make Guile more friendly to newbies, guile-studio seems a good thing to help them to get a start. Best regards. On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 2:40 AM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > I’m glad you consider th

Re: Contributions to “Guile Studio”

2019-10-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Mark, I’m glad you consider this to be useful! >> Guile Studio is not supposed to be yet another pre-configured Emacs; its >> goal is just to provide a comfortable environment that works best for >> playing with Guile. I’d like to have less surprising window management, >> but I don’t know

Re: Contributions to “Guile Studio”

2019-10-22 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > some months ago I thought it would be neat if we had a simpler > environment for newcomers to play with Guile than to ask them to first > learn how to use Emacs. > > This is what made me play around with Emacs to build something called > “Guile Studio”. It a

Contributions to “Guile Studio”

2019-10-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hello Guilers, some months ago I thought it would be neat if we had a simpler environment for newcomers to play with Guile than to ask them to first learn how to use Emacs. This is what made me play around with Emacs to build something called “Guile Studio”. It aims to hide the weirdest parts of

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-09 Thread Chad Albers
Thanks everyone for your feedback. It gives a sense of what contributions would be welcome. There seems no clear consensus that there is anything on my list that is drop-dead important. There doesn't seem much desire to move beyond the current build system; while interesting, I'm not getting a s

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I couldn’t derive anything constructive from the reply. Indeed. :-) > Or are we talking about just changing the style for the Guile manual? No, all of the gendocs-using things. Well, at least we’ll try, if you can put up an example on-line. Ludo’.

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Could you look again at the feedback at > > and put up an example manual somewhere (thus not requiring Stylish)? We > can then lobby for the new CSS again. :-) The full relevant criticism/feedback

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Thompson, David
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Chad Albers wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Christopher Allan Webber > wrote: >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Christopher Allan Webber skribis: >>> Chad Albers writes: >>> >>> [...] >>> > b. More robust documentation system - texinfo is not the

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Chad Albers
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Christopher Allan Webber skribis: >> >>> Chad Albers writes: >> >> [...] >> b. More robust documentation system - texinfo is not the greatest. And it's non-trivial to generate any documentatio

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Christopher Allan Webber skribis: >> >>> Chad Albers writes: >> >> [...] >> b. More robust documentation system - texinfo is not the greatest. And it's non-trivial to generate any documentation (including texinfo) for >>>

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > If the html export was nicely themed >>> >>> It can be nicely themed. FWIW, Gnulib’s gendocs.sh, which is what most >>> projects use to export their HTML to gnu.org, now includes a CSS by >>> default (see

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Christopher Allan Webber writes: >>> If the html export was nicely themed >> >> It can be nicely themed. FWIW, Gnulib’s gendocs.sh, which is what most >> projects use to export their HTML to gnu.org, now includes a CSS by >> default (see as an example.) We can >

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > >> Chad Albers writes: > > [...] > >>> b. More robust documentation system - texinfo is not the greatest. And >>> it's non-trivial to generate any documentation (including texinfo) for >>> modules. >> >> Texinfo is pretty nice to use i

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > >> Chad Albers writes: > > [...] > >>> b. More robust documentation system - texinfo is not the greatest. And >>> it's non-trivial to generate any documentation (including texinfo) for >>> modules. >> >> Texinfo is pretty nice to use i

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > 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/arch

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: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Chad Albers writes: [...] >> b. More robust documentation system - texinfo is not the greatest. And >> it's non-trivial to generate any documentation (including texinfo) for >> modules. > > Texinfo is pretty nice to use if you're an emacs user... in fact, if

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-07 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 14:23:29 -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Texinfo is pretty nice to use if you're an emacs user... in fact, if > you're an emacs user, it's the best documentation reading system in the > world. But not everyone's an emacs user. It's also the required documentation

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-07 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Chad Albers writes: > Hi Ludo, > > Thanks for getting back to me. I am most interested in remedying the > pain points that I have encountered while developing guile code. > > The pain points I experienced are the following: > > a. Simple reference guide. The guile manual is more of a guide than

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-07 Thread Chad Albers
Hi Ludo, Thanks for getting back to me. I am most interested in remedying the pain points that I have encountered while developing guile code. The pain points I experienced are the following: a. Simple reference guide. The guile manual is more of a guide than a reference...the best way to find

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-05 Thread Sergi
It is good to hear such announcements encouraged. I have often missed some ideas from Clojure and Racket in guile and recently had an idea to create a library that would bring those ideas in one place. I have defined macros that bring Clojure or Racket forms into the several projects I've used gui

Re: Contributions to Guile

2016-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Chad Albers skribis: > I have experience with several schemes: Racket, Chibli, Gauche, and Guile. > I've started to enjoy Guile the most. I've written one Guile module ( > https://github.com/neomantic/guile-beaglebone-io) and I'm about to release > another one (mailboxes queues for cross th

Contributions to Guile

2016-01-17 Thread Chad Albers
Hi, I have experience with several schemes: Racket, Chibli, Gauche, and Guile. I've started to enjoy Guile the most. I've written one Guile module ( https://github.com/neomantic/guile-beaglebone-io) and I'm about to release another one (mailboxes queues for cross thread communication). I'm consi