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

2013-12-02 Thread msematman
Hi Nala, Thanks for replying. I noticed only after posting that the title was not adjusted to the content, so i'm glad someone gave it a look. The multi-lang feature of Guile is, in my opinion, a little bit controversial. On one hand, it is certainly an advantage to be able to use the underlying

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

Re: Deficiencies in documentation for modules

2013-12-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Panicz Maciej Godek skribis: > While looking at (ice-9 r5rs), (ice-9 safe-r5rs) > and (ice-9 null), I've noticed, that there are a few > undocumented procedures used there, like > "make-module" or "set-module-kind!". In the thread > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2009-02/msg0.ht

GNU dmd 0.1 released

2013-12-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce GNU dmd version 0.1, the first of a series of alpha releases having a positive version number. • About GNU dmd is a “daemon managing daemons” (or “daemons-managing daemon”?)–i.e., a service manager that provides a replacement for the service-managing capabilities