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: Performance tracking

2012-05-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! skribis: > Noah Lavine wrote: >> It appears to me (anecdotally) that most of the build time is spent >> compiling Scheme code, rather than C code. >> >> One idea I had been toying with is whether Guile could compile faster >> if it had another copy of Guile already around, so it coul

Re: Who moderates the scheme-reports list?

2012-05-06 Thread David Kastrup
Alex Shinn writes: > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Alex Shinn writes: >>> The moderator is mostly inactive.  Is subscribing >>> really such a problem for people? >> >> If subscribers can post without moderation, >> then I will be glad to subscribe. > > Yes, of course

Re: [PATCH] Turn on more documentation

2012-05-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Noah Lavine skribis: > As part of my investigation into modules that don't have > documentation, I discovered that several modules in ice-9/ actually > have usable documentation that we are just not using in our build > process. (For reference, everything in the "Standard Library" section >

Re: Performance tracking

2012-05-06 Thread dsmich
"Ludovic Courtès" wrote: > Hi! > > skribis: > > > Noah Lavine wrote: > >> It appears to me (anecdotally) that most of the build time is spent > >> compiling Scheme code, rather than C code. > >> > >> One idea I had been toying with is whether Guile could compile faster > >> if it

Re: Chunked Encoding

2012-05-06 Thread Ian Price
I've attached the patch. It's not ready for inclusion yet, as it needs more tests, and documentation, but this is the rough idea of what it will be like. It doesn't close the wrapped port, but I think a keyword argument might be the right approach. Thoughts on this, and the patch in general are w

Psyntax security hole prevents secure sandboxing in Guile

2012-05-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hello all, Every once in a while someone asks about secure sandboxing with Guile, and generally the response is that it should be fairly easy, by creating a module with carefully selected bindings, but there's nothing ready "out of the box". I just realized that psyntax has a security hole that p

Re: Chunked Encoding

2012-05-06 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Ian Price () Sun, 06 May 2012 05:52:00 +0100 I think we can leave trailers until I have some actual data on how much these are actually used in practice, and/or someone complains about it being missing. WDYT? It's not so hard to conform. Trailers are just headers in the tail positi