Re: my latest blog post

Mark, thank you again for your remarks 2018-06-08 20:05 GMT+02:00 Mark H Weaver : > Hi Catonano, > > Thank you for your email. I don't have time to make a proper response > yet, but for now I will respond to just one point: > > Catonano writes: > > On my side, I was a bit adversary because I f

Re: my latest blog post

2018-06-08 16:25 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus : > > Hi Catonano, > > > Andy Wingo has a post in which he lists tasks he'd lie to be implemented > on > > Guile, many of them have to do with the file format of the compiled > files. > > > > Some love should go to the quality of the experience too, not on

2 ideas (Was: Re: bug#31518: [PATCH 10/21] gnu: Add emacs-google-translate.)

Hi On June 8, 2018 4:49:34 PM GMT+02:00, l...@gnu.org wrote: >Hi Pierre, > >Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > >> * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-google-translate): New variable. > >[...] > >> + (home-page "https://github.com/atykhonov/google-translate";) >> + (synopsis "Emacs interface to Goo

New ‘guix pull’

Hello Guix! For those who haven’t been following along on , I have just pushed a new ‘guix pull’. To summarize, ~/.config/guix/latest no longer exists. Instead ~/.config/guix/current is populated with a complete Guix (without ‘guix-daemon’

Re: my latest blog post

2018-06-09 12:39 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus : > > Catonano writes: > > > Assuming that users read academic articles about programming languages in > > order to know your way aroung Guile is not reasonable > > I fail to see how this follows from Guile’s lack of a macro stepper. Then you were not f

Re: 2 ideas (Was: Re: bug#31518: [PATCH 10/21] gnu: Add emacs-google-translate.)

swedebugia transcribed 2.8K bytes: > Hi > > On June 8, 2018 4:49:34 PM GMT+02:00, l...@gnu.org wrote: > >Hi Pierre, > > > >Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > > > >> * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs-google-translate): New variable. > > > >[...] > > > >> + (home-page "https://github.com/atykhonov/goog

Re: my latest blog post

Hi Catonano, > 2018-06-09 12:39 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus : > >> >> Catonano writes: >> >> > Assuming that users read academic articles about programming languages in >> > order to know your way aroung Guile is not reasonable >> >> I fail to see how this follows from Guile’s lack of a macro step

Re: my latest blog post

Catonano writes: > Assuming that users read academic articles about programming languages in > order to know your way aroung Guile is not reasonable I fail to see how this follows from Guile’s lack of a macro stepper. To be honest, I never even heard of a macro stepper before. And I have nev

Re: my latest blog post

Ricardo, you are right that in my last interaction there was some animosity and the message was below the standard I apologize I see that you are maing an effort to deescalate. I appeciate that. Really I also see that you are suggesting some techical remediation about the store monad And that

Re: my latest blog post

2018-06-09 14:24 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus : > > Catonano writes: > > >> Andy’s time is still limited. What other people can do is discuss > >> *specific* cases on guile-devel and work towards a solution. But please > >> do not demand of others to explain everything in detail. (I’m directing >

Re: my latest blog post

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Catonano writes: > > I wrote this: > >But please do not demand of others to explain everything in detail. >(I’m directing this at everyone who heeds my advice to go to >guile-devel, not at any one person in particular.) > > Rephrasing: I’d like to point this o

New ‘guix pull’ dosen’t update the guix manual in GuixSD

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello Guix! > > For those who haven’t been following along on > , I have just > pushed a new ‘guix pull’. > > To summarize, ~/.config/guix/latest no longer exists. Instead > ~/.config/guix/current is

Re: my latest blog post

Catonano writes: > Instead of calling me an hopeless moron unwilling to learn, he went and > updated Skribilo, without saying a single word > > I noticed > > And I appreciated it > > So, yes, it was aggressie indeed > > Again. I'll try to be more complete later I think it's great that Ludovic res

Re: Fwd: Re: Patch file for colorize module

Hi Ricardo, When I used "(colorize-string "hello" '(GREEN))" in REPL that gave me a error unbound variable colorize-string When i used the same in attached file this gave me a colorless output However when I tried with "(colorize-string "hello" 'GREEN)" in same file this gave me colored output b

Re: my latest blog post

On 06/07/2018 at 17:25 Catonano writes: > I just published my latest blog post > > In this post I discuss Guix > > And I discuss Guile too > > I understand that the language is strong and I expect someone to be upset > > But I feel this is due > > Happy reading > > http://catonano.v220180258366619

Re: my latest blog post

myg...@gmail.com writes: > On 06/07/2018 at 17:25 Catonano writes: > >> I just published my latest blog post >> >> In this post I discuss Guix >> >> And I discuss Guile too >> >> I understand that the language is strong and I expect someone to be upset >> >> But I feel this is due >> >> Happy read

Re: Cleaning up make clean's behavior

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Could you clarify what the problem is? > > (Besides I agree with Mark that “make clean” should not delete files it > doesn’t know about.) I also agree. FYI, to delete everything and return to a pristine Git repository state, I usually do this: # Clea

Re: Software Heritage archive is now live!

ludovic.cour...@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > The Software Heritage archive is now accessible: > > https://www.softwareheritage.org/2018/06/07/opening-the-door/ > > [...] > > Anyway, I find this pretty exciting, and I think we’ll be able to use it > as a fallback in ‘git-fetch’ without m

Re: my latest blog post

On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 08:51:59PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > myg...@gmail.com writes: > > Thank you for taking the time to contribute your thoughts. I am sorry to > > see you getting so beat up by the responses. Unfortunately the > > nit-picking of criticisms and the "we are busy, why don't yo