Re: What new libraries or functionality does Guile need?

[Bill Schottstaedt]

> Would it be possible for the snd team to spend 
> some time factoring out these things?

There's a short answer, and a very long answer that would take me
several hours to compose.  The short one is that two large sections
have been extracted into stand-alone libraries: sndlib and xmlib.
sndlib includes the sound file accessors, audio device handlers,
a package of array processing stuff, and a package of sound
synthesis functions.  xmlib includes bindings for Motif, Xt, X,
Glib, Gdk, Gtk, cairo, and openGL.  These are available at
ccrma's ftp site:

  ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp/sndlib.tar.gz
  ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp/libxm.tar.gz

xen.h has macros to deal with all the changes from Guile 1.3.4
to the present.  I could extract more from Snd, the axis drawing stuff
for example, or the optimizer, but most of the code is specific to editing and
synthesizing sounds.