Re: [ANNOUNCE] rep-gtk-0.18.4 (other scheme..)

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Sonntag, den 03.05.2009, 22:09 +0200 schrieb Christopher Roy
Bratusek:
> Am Sonntag, den 03.05.2009, 19:21 +0200 schrieb Jose A. Ortega Ruiz:
> > Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche math ntnu no> writes:
> > 
> > > + "Chengqi(Lars) Song" <songcq gmail com>:
> > >
> > >> I think im running off topic but I'm a little bit curious about
> > >> rep': why should we maintain a scheme implementation just for this
> > >> software? can we just implement sawfish upon other scheme
> > >> implementation such as gnu-guile/mit-scheme or plt-scheme? that'
> > >> would be a lot relaxing for maintainers.
> > >
> > > Do these other schemes have modules, rep style? Also, there is the
> > > integration with C code to be considered. It's probably not trivial to
> > > port the whole package to those other implementations you mention.
> > 
> > Guile has modules that, i think, are functionally equivalent to rep's,
> > but the syntax differs (rep module syntax is very close, if not
> > identical, to that of scsh/scheme48). The gap could probably be closed
> > by some macro definitions, or just a semi-automatic rewrite of jl files.
> > 
> > Regarding integration with C code, Guile is quite good at it (being one
> > of its initial design goals), and there exist good bindings to gtk+ (and
> > the whole Gnome library suite). IMHO, a port to Guile is perfectly
> > possible; but of course it needs some work :)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > jao
> > 
> 
> a) need someone who takes the goal
> b) not before GNOME 3.0, since it comes with GTK+3.0 and I don't want to
> waste time with GTK+2 in that time-window between 2.16 and 3.0.
> 
> Chris
> 

c) well, do we want to give up rep/rep-gtk
d) how fast do we get GUILE for GNOME 3?
e) what about stuff we might need, but not in GUILE? (Is it beeing added
upstream?)

Chris