[gambit-list] output ports created with ##open-predefined not being garbage collected

Dimitris Vyzovitis vyzo at hackzen.org
Fri Apr 10 16:19:30 EDT 2020


I would wholeheartedly welcome such an initiative, and I would gladly help
out anyone interested to take it on.
I am currently swamped with work (and will be for the forseeable future),
so I can't do it on my own.

-- vyzo

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 11:08 PM Marc Feeley <feeley at iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:

>
> > On Apr 10, 2020, at 2:19 PM, Dimitris Vyzovitis <vyzo at hackzen.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > You might be interested in the gerbil socket library a spin; there is
> support for UNIX domain sockets through raw devices
> >
> > -- vyzo
>
> It would be nice if that socket library was a Gambit module so that other
> Gambit users can use it!  :-)
>
> In fact it would be great to have a way for (most) Gerbil modules to be
> directly accessible from pure Gambit code with an (import (gerbil xxx)) or
> something like that.  That would lessen the community split between Gerbil
> and pure Gambit users.
>
> Something to consider is to turn Gerbil into a Gambit module so it can be
> installed directly using Gambit’s package manager.  This is already the
> model for Termite Scheme which was initially designed as a separate
> language but is now a Gambit module.  I’ve also approached Guillaume
> Cartier to turn JazzScheme into a Gambit module.  Note that I’m not talking
> about a builtin module, but rather a module hosted on its own git
> repository and installable with “gsi -install
> github.com/user/my-great-lang”.
>
> If anyone is interested in contributing towards this goal, please let me
> know!
>
> Marc
>
>
>
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