Re: Why Ice-9?

[Andy Wingo]

On Mon 12 Jul 2010 10:07, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> () address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
> () Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:17:07 +0200
>
>    ‘system’ may be more risky in that respect.  ‘guile’ would have been a
>    better choice, but I’m afraid it’s too late (in theory it isn’t, but...).
>
>    Thoughts?
>
> Perhaps we can start discussing "directory aliases", a feature whereby
> (foo bar baz) can be specified to resolve (perhaps in multiple steps)
> to (actual baz).  We alias only directories, not full module names, to
> avoid having to deal with ‘%load-extensions’.

There are also submodule binders, in git guile, that can be used to
implement this.

> - Module name directory part (of aliases, of fully-resolved) 
>   must be non-empty?
>
> - Will dealing with ‘%load-extensions’ be in the future plans?
>
> - Where/how to store alias info.  Can this mechanism be unified
>   with one for resolved modules (e.g., Guile 1.4.x module catalogs)?

I don't understand the problem solved by these things; I would need more
details to comment, I think.

Andy
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