[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 dumping grounds but they are incredibly outdated)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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