Re: License of Hurd's common lisp bindings

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Maxime,

> Ricardo Wurmus schreef op do 29-04-2021 om 23:33 [+0200]:
> > [...]
> > Are you compiling this on a Hurd system?  Or do you build it on 
> > GNU+Linux first?
>
> On GNU+Linux first.  I don't have a good GNU+Hurd setup yet.
> I can create a childhurd, but then I still have to send patches
> from the childhurd to the parent system somehow .

Ah, good.  It’s same as for me: I don’t really have a good 
GNU+Hurd development setup yet.

I looked at the code and wonder if perhaps we should just rewrite 
the CL code to do without multiple inheritance and instead use 
compound conditions where necessary.  Another option is to write 
plain Guile bindings using the CL bindings only for reference.

There are also a couple of C wrappers in the libs directory, which 
we would implement differently in Guile (e.g. by using the FFI 
directly).<

What do you think?


I ran into a few minor problems with the build.  I ran “hall dist 
-x” to generate build system files, but there are errors when 
running “autoreconf -vif”.

“doc/scheme-hurd.texi” does not exist, so I changed that in 
hall.scm to “docs” and created an empty “scheme-hurd.texi” file. 
I also had to manually link the README file with “ln -s README.org 
README”.

The real problems start, of course, with the condition types in 
cffi/src/early-types.lisp etc… :)

--
Ricardo