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Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax)
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Bill Gribble |
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Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax) |
Date: |
10 Oct 2002 13:08:45 -0500 |
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 11:06, Daniel Skarda wrote:
> So these were my arguments I could think of. Please try to write down your
> oppinions. I would also like to hear arguments from "the other side" (break
> Guile into small and orthogonal packages), but I can not think of any benefit
> that would come from scattered development (except specific "beauty").
Deployability. I'd like to be able to pick and choose which pieces of
guile library functionality I need to install on a target platform --
for example, I have an actual client who I am actually delivering a
guile application running on a Compaq iPaq running Linux. It's a very
small platform, and if I have to pull in every SRFI, an Emacs debugger
interface, and all of the Gnome and Gtk libraries to install guile,
that's a problem for me.
I agree that for building general hacking interest it's good to have the
kitchen sink and all. But that's just a piece of the puzzle -- for
guile to be successful, it has to have long-term usefulness as a tool
that can be used by people getting paid to use it. Perl wouldn't be
perl if it was just fun to hack stuff up with it -- people push on it
because they use it in their jobs.
Personally, I have been using debian for so long that I don't want to
follow anything in CVS unless I'm hacking on it myself. From my POV if
it's manageably decomposed in debian, apt will do the thinking for me
and if I want a new shiny widget it's easy to install it.
b.g.
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), (continued)
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Daniel Skarda, 2002/10/10
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Rob Browning, 2002/10/10
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Clinton Ebadi, 2002/10/10
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Lynn Winebarger, 2002/10/10
- Proposal for scope of core distro, Neil Jerram, 2002/10/13
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Daniel Skarda, 2002/10/18
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Lynn Winebarger, 2002/10/19
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Daniel Skarda, 2002/10/20
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax),
Bill Gribble <=
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Daniel Skarda, 2002/10/19
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Neil Jerram, 2002/10/13
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Daniel Skarda, 2002/10/18
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Neil Jerram, 2002/10/19
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Daniel Skarda, 2002/10/10
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Neil Jerram, 2002/10/13
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Daniel Skarda, 2002/10/18
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), tomas, 2002/10/19
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), Daniel Skarda, 2002/10/20
- Re: Adding stuff to the core distro (was Re: Infix syntax), tomas, 2002/10/21