Re: Now using Debbugs as our bug tracker

2011-09-19 Thread David Pirotte
> The bug-gu...@gnu.org mailing list is now tracked by the Debbugs > instance at gnu.org, . Bug reports can be seen > at . > Thanks to Andy for requesting it, and to Glenn Morris for setting it up! How nice! Thanks all, David

Re: Using guile as an extension language for GNU make

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 02:28 +0200, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > "Clean" in what way? Everything depends on what the expected (valid) use > of this facility would be. Could you give some examples (w/ failure cases)? In make, everything is just words: broken up on whitespace. So for example, maybe s

Re: Using guile as an extension language for GNU make

2011-09-19 Thread Hans Aberg
On 19 Sep 2011, at 17:14, Paul Smith wrote: > In make, everything is just words: broken up on whitespace. So for > example, maybe someone writes a Guile function that computes a complex > set of prerequisites for a target: > > target: $(guile (...some Guile program...)) > > The list of pr

Re: Using guile as an extension language for GNU make

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 21:41 +0200, Hans Aberg wrote: > On 19 Sep 2011, at 17:14, Paul Smith wrote: > > > In make, everything is just words: broken up on whitespace. So for > > example, maybe someone writes a Guile function that computes a complex > > set of prerequisites for a target: > > > >

Re: Using guile as an extension language for GNU make

2011-09-19 Thread Hans Aberg
On 19 Sep 2011, at 23:56, Paul Smith wrote: > The first stage of make is reading in all the makefiles. As part of > this, variables and functions are expanded (one line at a time) and the > result is a string. Its parser is handwritten, and perhaps not easy to tweak, and get 'make' variables an

Re: Using guile as an extension language for GNU make

2011-09-19 Thread Hans Aberg
On 19 Sep 2011, at 23:56, Paul Smith wrote: > Rather, I need to define a translation from any Guile data type I want > to support into a make-appropriate string (char* buffer) so it can be > appended to make's read buffer, then parsed by make. For any Guile data > type I can't or don't want to tr

[ANN] libRUIN project development release 0.2.0

2011-09-19 Thread Julian Graham
Hi everyone, I am pleased to announce that the libRUIN project has made a new formal development release, version 0.2.0. Our project description, from Savannah: libRUIN (Renderer for User Interfaces in Ncurses) is a rendering library for various XML-based user interface markup languages (such as