Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-08 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Panicz Maciej Godek () Wed, 8 May 2013 14:51:47 +0200 2013/5/8 Thien-Thi Nguyen >[choosing installation dir for scheme code] > > I like how guile-ncurses does it. I think that it might be misleading. [infelicities w/ autotools, both "on" and "through"] Yes, it's messy

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Thien-Thi Nguyen skribis: > At present, there is a protocol between the repl and the database of > docstrings (guile-procedures.txt) only, and only for libguile(?). And > those laboriously maintained docstrings do not make it into the manual, > either, by dint of the mindset. If that were to ch

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-08 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
2013/5/8 Mike Gran > > > No, it's not used to generate the manual. It's used to generate > > guile-procedures.txt, which is consulted by 'object-documentation'. > > > > I agree that the current state of docstring handling leaves much to be > > desired. Maybe we should start a discussion on guil

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-08 Thread Mike Gran
> No, it's not used to generate the manual.  It's used to generate > guile-procedures.txt, which is consulted by 'object-documentation'. > > I agree that the current state of docstring handling leaves much to be > desired.  Maybe we should start a discussion on guile-devel about how > the improv

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-08 Thread Mark H Weaver
Panicz Maciej Godek writes: > I see now that I might have gotten something wrong, but e.g. in > libguile/alst.c there was a definition: > SCM_DEFINE (scm_acons, "acons", 3, 0, 0, > (SCM key, SCM value, SCM alist), > "Add a new key-value pair to @var{alist}. A new pair is\n" > "created whose car i

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-08 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
2013/5/8 Thien-Thi Nguyen > () Panicz Maciej Godek > () Wed, 8 May 2013 00:50:32 +0200 > >both guile-sdl and guile-figl copy the scm modules to >$(prefix)/share/guile/site..., but apparently they both do that in a >different way (which means there's no standard way), and none of them

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-08 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Panicz Maciej Godek () Wed, 8 May 2013 00:50:32 +0200 both guile-sdl and guile-figl copy the scm modules to $(prefix)/share/guile/site..., but apparently they both do that in a different way (which means there's no standard way), and none of them allows to 'fine tune' that director

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-07 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
2013/5/6 Thien-Thi Nguyen > () Panicz Maciej Godek > () Mon, 6 May 2013 21:36:33 +0200 > >Thanks :) I see that there are a few persons with similar ideas, and >I wonder how powerful we'd become if we managed to orchestrate our >powers somehow, as TTN suggested > > Orchestration is a

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-07 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
2013/5/7 Javier Sancho > Panicz Maciej Godek wrote: > > I even managed to build it, but for some reasons the demos won't run. I > get > > the following error: > > gacela/video.scm:175:2: In procedure init-gl: > > gacela/video.scm:175:2: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: > > set-gl-hin

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-07 Thread Javier Sancho
Panicz Maciej Godek wrote: > I even managed to build it, but for some reasons the demos won't run. I get > the following error: > gacela/video.scm:175:2: In procedure init-gl: > gacela/video.scm:175:2: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: > set-gl-hint The reason is, oh my god, you are th

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-06 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Panicz Maciej Godek () Mon, 6 May 2013 21:36:33 +0200 Thanks :) I see that there are a few persons with similar ideas, and I wonder how powerful we'd become if we managed to orchestrate our powers somehow, as TTN suggested Orchestration is a nice concept. It is the marshalling of se

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-06 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
2013/5/6 Javier Sancho > Congratulations!! > > I've been working a little on something similar during the last four > years, but I am looking for a kind of fluxus > (http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/) for games. Thanks :) I see that there are a few persons with similar ideas, and I wonder how power

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-06 Thread Javier Sancho
Congratulations!! I've been working a little on something similar during the last four years, but I am looking for a kind of fluxus (http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/) for games. You can see my code at http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gacela First versions were developed with GNU Common Lisp and C

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-05 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
2013/5/5 Thien-Thi Nguyen >I think that the simplicity could convince some people to employ >slayer to their multimedia projects -- because it requires no >additional setup and works out of the box, so for instance it could >be quite easily employed to implement the picture langua

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-05 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Panicz Maciej Godek () Sun, 5 May 2013 08:59:18 +0200 I think that the simplicity could convince some people to employ slayer to their multimedia projects -- because it requires no additional setup and works out of the box, so for instance it could be quite easily employed to imple

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-04 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
Hello! It sounds like an interesting project. > > The subject line of your post says it is a "GNU Package", but I don't see > slayer in > the official list. Perhaps you mean it is one that you want to submit to > GNU in the hope that they will adopt it as a package? Or did you mean > something >

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-04 Thread Stjepan Horvat
It sounds fun although i'm guile newb..i'm just starting to learn how recursion works and have written few simple functions reading The_Little_Schemer..It would be cool to have a binary gui for programs writen in c and has guile as extension language.. On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:15 AM, John Darringt

Re: SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-04 Thread John Darrington
It sounds like an interesting project. The subject line of your post says it is a "GNU Package", but I don't see slayer in the official list. Perhaps you mean it is one that you want to submit to GNU in the hope that they will adopt it as a package? Or did you mean something else? Obviously how

SLAYER announcement and help request for preparing a GNU package

2013-05-04 Thread Panicz Maciej Godek
Hi everyone, I've developed a piece of software that I named SLAYER, by combining the letter 's' with the word "layer", or replacing the 'p' letter with 's' in the word 'player'. Either way, slayer can be thought of as a simpler alternative for wrapper libraries such as guile-sdl and guile-opengl,