Re: SLIB support

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Rottmann <address@hidden> writes:

>> Currently on my System (Debian sid), Guile 1.8 does not support
>> SLIB. I have done a preliminary patch (attached) that makes the module
>> (ice-9 slib) load the guile.init file from SLIB, which seems to work
>> fine AFAICS.

The status of `(ice-9 slib)' has been discussed recently, the outcome
being that a solution similar to yours should be implemented [0].

However, instead of configure-time detection, I'd rather lean towards
using `load-from-path' without making any configure-time detection.
This would make it clear that SLIB is not a hard dependency and would
allow users to install/upgrade it afterwards.  Is that OK?

Thanks,
Ludovic.

[0] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel/6764