Re: problems running guile

2005-10-19 Thread Neil Jerram
Shelagh Manton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interesting. As I am totally ignorant about how any of the package > managers work internally, I just supposed it would be OK to use something > that used shell scripts as you're supposed to be able to read bash with > enough effort and a tutorial next

Re: (read-enable 'copy)

2005-10-19 Thread Neil Jerram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > What is the `copy' reader option about? Looking at the code, it seems > that this has to do with source properties but I fail to understand the > point of this option. It tells Guile to take a copy of the source expression as originally re

Re: Modified load-path proposal

2005-10-19 Thread Neil Jerram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > There were really two points in my message: > > 1. Autoconf/Automake (and, consequently, the user) _must_ know about > these three different directories, namely `guileschemedir', > `guilelibdir' and `guileobjectdir', instead of only one direct

Re: Modified load-path proposal

2005-10-19 Thread Neil Jerram
Greg Troxel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That all sounds fine, except that I think (policy!) we should either > discourage putting stuff under 1.6, or suggest 1.6/site, so that > guile's own files and other stuff are cleanly separated. I agree that > mechanism sufficient for various policies is

Re: Socket API improvement, patch #6

2005-10-19 Thread Marius Vollmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Then you're just waiting for the nod from Marius. :) > > Oh, but it looks like he's been away for a couple of months or so. > Anyway, we'll see. I'm back! :-) Yeah, I had accidentally disconnected myself fr

Re: problems running guile

2005-10-19 Thread Shelagh Manton
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 18:32 +0100, Neil Jerram wrote: > Shelagh Manton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: > > ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path > > Sounds like a %load-path problem. What do you get on your system for > > $ which g

Re: problems running guile

2005-10-19 Thread Shelagh Manton
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 18:32 +0100, Neil Jerram wrote: > Shelagh Manton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: > > ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path > > Sounds like a %load-path problem. What do you get on your system for > > $ which g

Re: Managing Guile and extensions versions

2005-10-19 Thread Rob Browning
Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The two developers who have thought most on this subject in the past > are Marius (Vollmer) and Rob (Browning), and they've both been out of > circulation for the last week or so. No doubt one of them will > respond when they catch up with the list. I ju