[ANN] guile-xmlrpc 0.1.0 released

2013-02-05 Thread Aleix Conchillo Flaqué
Hi, I just released the first version of guile-xmlrpc. This comes from a module I wrote for tekuti (Andy's blog engine) to be able to support the MovableType API. It has evolved a bit since then. If you want to give it a try, in the examples/ directory there's a server and a client that should ta

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

2013-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andy Wingo skribis: > I agree that we would do well to allow bytevectors wherever an argument > type is a pointer. It avoids an allocation in a very common case > without changing the expressiveness of the interface or adding > significant additional overhead. I find it somewhat inelegant, thou

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

2013-02-05 Thread Noah Lavine
Hello, That does sound very useful. The only thing that makes me worried is On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Andy Wingo wrote: > On Thu 17 Jan 2013 11:53, Marco Maggi writes: > > The other Scheme implementations using a non-compacting > > garbage collector > Do we want to guarant

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

2013-02-05 Thread Andy Wingo
On Thu 17 Jan 2013 11:53, Marco Maggi writes: > * Whenever a callout to C accepts a pointer argument: a > bytevector argument is rejected. Is this not a useless > complication? > > One canwork around it byexplicitly using > BYTEVECTOR->POINTER, so everything is

Re: Guile not running properly on GNU/Hurd

2013-02-05 Thread Pino Toscano
Alle lunedì 4 febbraio 2013, Ludovic Courtès ha scritto: > Richard Braun skribis: > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 07:51:38PM +0100, Gabriel Schnoering wrote: > >> I can't run guile in gdb as there are some error with the garbage > >> collector. > > > > These are probably not errors. > > Indeed, you

Re: Guile and MSWindows

2013-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, "objc" skribis: >>> FAIL: tests/alist.test: sloppy-assq not >> >> ;;; :242:2: warning: possibly unbound variable `pass-if' Actually you need to type in just the body of the ‘pass-if’ or ‘pass-if-exception’ forms. Could you try that? >> ;;; :473:4: warning: possibly unbound variable `de

Re: Guile and MSWindows

2013-02-05 Thread objc
Hi Ludo, Some tests as requested. --- FAIL: tests/alist.test: sloppy-assq not ;;; :242:2: warning: possibly unbound variable `pass-if' ;;; :246:2: warning: possibly unbound variable `pass-if' ;;; :250:2: warning: possib