Status of gnome-guile (again)

2013-12-30 Thread msematman
Hi, I've pulled the most recent image of gnome-guile-platform from savannah, git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guile-gnome.git guile-gnome-platform built it (at first glance, successfully) , but running gtk demos from directory guile-gnome-platform/gtk/examples/guile-gtk-demo fails. Among the

Re: [ANN] Guile-WM 0.1/Guile XCB 1.1

2013-12-02 Thread msematman
Seems interesting. I noticed that one of the ideas mentioned on the website was to create a widget set for the wm. I hope this does not mutate into a full-fledged graphical desktop environment :-) . Some of us detest having anything heavier than a wm (such as fluxbox, or stump) on our machines. B

extending guile programs thru python (or lua, or whatever ...)

2013-12-02 Thread msematman
re is anyone working/interested-in-working on integration with Python, i'd be glad to lend a hand. Cheers, msematman On Mon, Dec 2, 2013, at 04:49 AM, Nala Ginrut wrote: > hi there! > I'm glad that you're interested on Guile's multi-lang feature. > Guile has seve

Re: guile scripting for gdb

2013-11-30 Thread msematman
I'm curious, what is the current status of support for other interpreted languages in the Guile VM? For example, what's the status of Python for Guile? As probably many of you , once I've felt the power of lispy languages, it's an annoyance to go back to anything inferior, but many people I work wi

Creating temporary files

2013-03-20 Thread msematman
I am somewhat confused by the behaviour of 'tmpfile' function in guile 2.0.5 For example, (define a (tmpfile)) (port-filename a) returns #f. Shouldn't there be a file created in /tmp ? Using 'write-line' and 'read-line' from the module 'rdelim' to store and access the contents of 'a' is not wo

Re: displaying UTF8 characters in and out of a script (guile 2.0.5)

2012-12-17 Thread msematman
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012, at 09:31 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > David Pirotte writes: > > >> However, the same command in a script: > >> > >> #!/usr/bin/guile \ > >> -s > >> #! > >> (display "Ćićolina") > >> > >> writes this out: ?i?olina > > > > you need to set the port encoding first [for further

displaying UTF8 characters in and out of a script (guile 2.0.5)

2012-12-16 Thread msematman
Dear all, (display "Ćićolina") from the interactive session with the guile interpreter correctly writes Ćićolina to the standard output. However, the same command in a script: #!/usr/bin/guile \ -s #! (display "Ćićolina") writes this out: ?i?olina Obviously, there is something wrong with the o

Re: guile 2.0.7 installation problems: configure issues libltdl error

2012-12-07 Thread msematman
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012, at 04:54 PM, dsm...@roadrunner.com wrote: > > msemat...@myopera.com wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2012, at 08:24 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > > msemat...@myopera.com writes: > > > > Last line of configure output: > > > > > > > > ... > > > >

Re: guile 2.0.7 installation problems: configure issues libltdl error

2012-12-07 Thread msematman
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012, at 08:24 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > msemat...@myopera.com writes: > > Last line of configure output: > > > > ... > > ... > > ... > > checking for libltdl... no > > > > and an error is issued complaining about the absence of libltdl. > > > > Howe

guile 2.0.7 installation problems: configure issues libltdl error

2012-12-06 Thread msematman
Dear all, I am a non-root user on a 64bit machine. I have been trying to install guile 2.0.7 from the tarball. After ordinary ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local or even just ./configure did not work, I have tried with: CC=gcc LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib64/" ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local First few lines