Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax)

[Rob Browning]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> On the other hand...  Rob has raised the question of whether we should
> be adding things to the core distro that don't strictly need to be
> there, so perhaps we should stop for a moment to consider our
> principles on this point.

I not all that concerned with things that require an explicit
activation.  I'm more concerned with any additions to what's visible
in the core of guile (guile) and (guile-user) at startup, and more
particularly, how much happens in ice-9/boot-9.scm, though to some
extent that's an efficiency issue as much as a semantic issue.

I do think it would be nice if eventually guile were separable to the
extent that it was easy to install a "guile-base" that was perhaps
much smaller than "guile-base + guile-foo + guile-bar", but I'm not
saying I know how things should be broken up in to guile-base,
guile-foo, and guile-bar...

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