[gambit-list] Lack of Libraries/ FFI / Tutorials
Guillaume Cartier
gcartier at jazzscheme.org
Tue Dec 10 15:14:07 EST 2013
Having a standard module system for Gambit would also give access to the
JazzScheme libraries :
- contrib.aes : Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) symmetric key block
cipher
- contrib.fmt : Alex Shinn's fmt combinator-based text formatting library
- contrib.irregex : Alex Shinn's irregex regular expressions library
- contrib.match : Alex Shinn's hygienic pattern matcher library
- contrib.sqlite : SQLite database engine
- contrib.statprof : Guillaume Germain's statistical profiler
- contrib.termite : Guillaume Germain's distributed computing termite
- contrib.zlib : ZLib compression library
- jazz : The Jazz object-oriented programming language
- jazz.catalog : Code cross-referencing library
- jazz.debugger : Remote debugger implementation
- jazz.designer : Visual GUI designer
- jazz.detprof : Deterministic profiler
- jazz.git : Interface to the libgit2 library
- jazz.graphic : Cairo graphics interface
- jazz.graphic.opengl : OpenGL interface
- jazz.ui : Cross-platform UI library
- srfi-1
- srfi-13
- srfi-14
- srfi-19
- srfi-26
- srfi-34
- srfi-69
Guillaume Cartier
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Tomas Möre <tomas.o.more at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I would like to start out by saying a thank you to Marc for making Gambit.
> It is an awesome piece of software! Keep up the good work!
>
> But I would like to point on the lack of standard libraries for things
> such OpenGL, cocoa / the windows equivalent etc. (there are a few in the
> dumping grounds but they are incredibly outdated)
>
> Starting up using gambit has required a great deal of self guided
> exploring and trickery. And I can not see any reason why it should not
> exist any kind of simple examples for beginners to look at.
> I do know that there are one to be found on the site however I find it a
> bit too "technical" for some people.
>
>
>
> To the question!
>
> I had a little idea to ask you guys if any one you are interested in
> making a little development project to update the basic libraries needed.
> Maybe some of you already have such things and I encourage you to upload
> them to the dumping grounds! Sharing is caring! :)
> I will start working on doing these things myself but I must admin I
> neither have enough time and experience to do a good job all by myself.
>
> If you have an interest send me a mail!
>
> Best regards, Tomas Möre
>
>
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