Re: About Guile crypto support

2013-02-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Daniel Hartwig skribis: > By the way, I very much like the conventions used in the GnuTLS > bindings. The enums in particular make a lot of sense for a security > library, with the extreme type safety they provide. I will pursue a > similar approach. Yeah, I think it’s helpful. > One que

Re: About Guile crypto support

2013-02-09 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sat 09 Feb 2013 16:12, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > An issue with the FFI is distros where .la and .so files are only > available in the -dev package, because then ‘dynamic-link’ won’t work > unless that -dev package is installed (as recently discussed on > guile-user.) I have the

Re: About Guile crypto support

2013-02-09 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Andy, Andy Wingo writes: > On Sat 09 Feb 2013 16:12, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> An issue with the FFI is distros where .la and .so files are only >> available in the -dev package, because then ‘dynamic-link’ won’t work >> unless that -dev package is installed (as recently dis

Re: About Guile crypto support

2013-02-09 Thread Noah Lavine
Mark, I agree with everything you said about dependencies. I think the real solution is something like what you said - sharing code, but bundling. One way to push that farther would be to distribute tarballs that include the complete source of some libraries, and somehow making a combined build s

Re: About Guile crypto support

2013-02-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > Andy Wingo writes: > >> On Sat 09 Feb 2013 16:12, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> An issue with the FFI is distros where .la and .so files are only >>> available in the -dev package, because then ‘dynamic-link’ won’t work >>> unless that -dev package is ins

Re: [PATCH] add web/mime support

2013-02-09 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 6 February 2013 21:13, Nala Ginrut wrote: > /usr/share/mime is contained in 'shared-mime-info' package, at least for > openSUSE. The suggestion you gave means Guile will depend on this > package. Personally, I don't think that's what you want. ;-P Hi The suggestion was to support reading the