[gambit-list] How to use a module?

Meng Zhang wsxiaoys.lh at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 21:46:14 EST 2012


On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

>
> On 2012-01-19, at 5:45 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 06:35:38PM +0300, Mikael wrote:
> >> 2011/10/14 Matthew Koichi Grimes <mkg at cs.nyu.edu>
> >>
> >>> As for Black Hole, one can argue that it should be kept as a separate
> >>> package, but there's nothing in that argument that says it can't be
> included
> >>> with the default Gambit installation. I would say the same for the
> SRFI's
> >>> floating around in Snow and Dumping Grounds. I would like for them to
> be
> >>> included by default, and be kept "separable" if that's something the
> user
> >>> cares about.
> >>>
> >>> Such "batteries inculded" installations are nice because they encourage
> >>> exploratory programming by lowering the barrier to trying out new
> features
> >>> (e.g. SRFI's). They also lower the adoption barrier for Gambit as a
> whole,
> >>> by lessening fears that every little thing is going to be some obscure
> >>> installation chore. This is particularly important for non-mainstream
> >>> languages, which, with some justification, bear the stigma of being a
> pain
> >>> to set up.
> >
> > Any chance the v4.6.4 prebuilts are batteries-included in this sense?
>
> I'm open to suggestions on how to include Black Hole in the Gambit
> distribution.  The problem I see is that Black Hole is maintained
> separately (which is a *good* thing) but it means that the version
> distributed with Gambit will not be up to date.  Perhaps one way around
> this is to add a configure switch (--enable-black-hole) to automatically
> download the latest Black Hole and install it along Gambit.  Perhaps this
> should be done using Alex Shinn's new Snow package system...  There are so
> many options!
>
> From WG's wiki http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/Snow
Snow itself is an module management system depends on r7rs scheme, which
solved half of the job blackhole did.
Anyway, doe it means that Gambit *will* support r7rs?

Meng


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