[gambit-list] Lack of Libraries/ FFI / Tutorials

Adrien Piérard pierarda at iro.umontreal.ca
Tue Dec 17 19:18:09 EST 2013


Yes, portage is similar to FreeBSD's ports. Roughly:
Ports/Portage: no every package can be updated independently by anyone
who's got the rights. As a result, if things worked one month ago, and are
now broken, you may have to revert many packages.
Quicklisp: All packages are integrated together in a single release by the
release manager. Tthe manager usually checked that everything builds well
before making a release. There's much more investment there for the
manager, but life is easier for users for the set of packages is always
consistent.

P!




On 17 December 2013 13:33, Álvaro Castro-Castilla <
alvaro.castro.castilla at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not a FreeBSD user, but as far as I know, Gentoo's portage is pretty
> similar, and I'm familiar with it. I think that would be overengineering at
> the moment.
> About Quicklisp: it seems interesting. It seems pretty similar, but I
> don't know it in detail.
> The tools I'm building are similar to Rake (ruby) / NPM (node.js) / Yeoman
>
> What I'm doing is a set of curated libraries growing organically. It's
> everything pretty simple, though. It's better to have something simple that
> works, and build upon that. Just like Gambit does, but for the application
> developer who wants to start from something and still have all the
> flexibility Gambit provides.
>
> I'll create better documentation during the next days, so the most
> important pieces are well documented, and can be improved on top of what is
> already done. There is a lot to be done =)
>
>
>
>
>
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> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Adrien Piérard <pierarda at iro.umontreal.ca
> > wrote:
>
>> Do you plan to make something like FreeBSD's ports or rather something
>> like quicklisp?
>>
>> P!
>>
>> On 16 December 2013 23:53, Álvaro Castro-Castilla
>> <alvaro.castro.castilla at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Răzvan Rotaru <razvan.rotaru at gmail.com
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I wish I would have found schemespheres.org earlier. Thinks like these
>> >> should be mentioned in the wiki.
>> >>
>> >> Razvan
>> >>
>> >
>> > Yes, that'd be nice ;)
>> > But bear in mind that the project is still evolving and in alpha stage,
>> so I
>> > didn't talk too much about it for that reason. We are going to make it a
>> > solid foundation upon which you can build your own apps. But that takes
>> time
>> > :)
>> >
>> > At the moment is already helpful, it should work. If you need assistance
>> > with its installation or you are experiencing any issues, please don't
>> > hesitate to contact me so it can be improved.
>> >
>> > Best regards
>> >
>> > Álvaro
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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