Re: Marketing Guile (was Re: GNU Guile community in google+)

2013-01-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "hellekin (GNU Consensus)" skribis: > GNU. I'm not aware of any such > documentation that clarifies the specificities of the GNU project > regarding program structure; I know there is documentation scattered > around many manuals, but not a single, quite short introduction that > would give

Re: on coding a portable R6RS package supporting Guile and its FFI

2013-01-27 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 27 January 2013 23:08, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Marco, > > Sorry for the delay. > > Marco Maggi skribis: >> * It appears that there is no facility to handle "output >> arguments" from C functions; I mean the cases where a C >> function accepts as argument a pointer to variable

Re: Porting guile-xlib

2013-01-27 Thread Gabriel Schnoering
Hi, > I'm interested in using guile-xlib to mess around with writing a window > manager. Nice idea ! I really find its a missing feature. Why don't you target xcb rather than xlib ? It seems more modern (and more suited for guile ?). Regards. Le 27/01/2013 14:31, Mark Witmer a écrit :> > Hi al

Marketing Guile (was Re: GNU Guile community in google+)

2013-01-27 Thread hellekin (GNU Consensus)
On 01/13/2013 08:33 AM, Andy Wingo wrote: > > Is there something that we need to build into gnu.org somehow? > *** I think Guile's role in the GNU operating system is understated. It would be nice to provide a somewhat short page that describes, if possible visually, where Guile sits in the GNU O

Re: on coding a portable R6RS package supporting Guile and its FFI

2013-01-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Marco, Sorry for the delay. Marco Maggi skribis: > * Guile does not come with the very simple SRFI 78: > lightweight testing. I had to include it[2][3]. Patches welcome. :-) > * It appears that there is no facility to handle "output > arguments" from C functions; I mea

Re: Porting guile-xlib

2013-01-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mark Witmer skribis: > I'm interested in using guile-xlib to mess around with writing a window > manager. However, it looks like my first task would be porting it to > Guile 2.0, since it's quite old (assuming some newer version isn't > floating around in the ether somewhere -- I'm looking a

Re: Porting guile-xlib

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Gran
Hi Mark > Am I safe to use "scm_from_int" in its place and other general SCM > numeric functions instead of the immediate number ones? These seem to > make up a large number of the deprecated functions in use by this > library. Basically yes. But when converting a scheme integer back to a C i

Re: Porting guile-xlib

2013-01-27 Thread Mark Witmer
I found something farily obvious that will help with a lot of these kinds of questions; methods like "scm_i_makinum" were accessed via macros, so the macro (SCM_MAKINUM) is what I had to search for in the old manuals. Am I safe to use "scm_from_int" in its place and other general SCM numeric func

Porting guile-xlib

2013-01-27 Thread Mark Witmer
Hi all, I'm interested in using guile-xlib to mess around with writing a window manager. However, it looks like my first task would be porting it to Guile 2.0, since it's quite old (assuming some newer version isn't floating around in the ether somewhere -- I'm looking at guile-xlib 0.4). I have