Re: Patches for module/ice-9/occam-channel.scm

2012-05-18 Thread Daniel Krueger
Hey, sorry for being so inactive in the last days (weeks?), I'm just having some free time after my final exams here. Yeah, I would assign the copyright to the FSF, I already read this but thought I'll cope with that later^^ - Daniel On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Noa

Re: Patches for module/ice-9/occam-channel.scm

2012-05-15 Thread Mark H Weaver
Noah Lavine writes: > Since these are relatively large changes, you'll also need to do a > copyright assignment. We assign the copyright on Guile to the Free > Software Foundation because under US law, the owner of a copyrighted > work is sometimes the only person with the power to sue over > viol

Re: Patches for module/ice-9/occam-channel.scm

2012-05-09 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, I talked some more with the maintainers. In general, everything that goes in should have tests and documentation. This module isn't documented to begin with, so you shouldn't have to fix that to contribute (although of course we'd love that :-) ). However, we would like tests for your chang

Re: Patches for module/ice-9/occam-channel.scm

2012-05-06 Thread Daniel Krueger
Hey, I myself don't know much about the foundations of the module itself, I only know it should be really the same as occam's channels, but I don't know much about them. I just found the package and thought it would seems to be useful. And as I tried to use it I found the incompatibilities and fix

Re: Patches for module/ice-9/occam-channel.scm

2012-05-04 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Nala Ginrut wrote: > Well, I think it's something like Actors but little different. > And I think it would be nice if there's a document for it. It's a foundational part of actors, more than actors themselves. Actors need some sort of "mailbox" to communicate with

Re: Patches for module/ice-9/occam-channel.scm

2012-05-03 Thread Nala Ginrut
Well, I think it's something like Actors but little different. And I think it would be nice if there's a document for it. On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Noah Lavine wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks a lot for submitting them! Micro-commits are exactly what we want. > > These patches raise an interesti

Re: Patches for module/ice-9/occam-channel.scm

2012-05-03 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, Thanks a lot for submitting them! Micro-commits are exactly what we want. These patches raise an interesting issue. I do not use occam-channel, and in fact I have no idea what it does since it has no documentation and no tests. Normally I only reply to emails if I think I know enough to g

Patches for module/ice-9/occam-channel.scm

2012-04-30 Thread Daniel Krueger
Hi, I've done some work on (ice-9 occam-channel) and fixed the module exports, the alt macro and extended it a little bit. Here are the patches, but they are all just micro-commits, I hope that is okay. - Daniel 0001-fixed-exports-of-module-ice-9-occam-channel.scm.patch Description: Binary data