Re: add guile-tools?

[Marius Vollmer]

thi <address@hidden> writes:

> below is a quick and dirty wrapper that i use personally.  it might be
> useful to be included in the guile distribution and installed as
> $bindir/guile-tools, so if nobody objects, i will spiff it up (convert
> to use configure-substituted vars,

Why?  I think using guile-config is quite nice.  You might add command
line options to overwrite the pkgdatadir and guileversion, maybe.

> on the other hand, i can see people not liking the further pollution
> of $bindir

I see nothing wrong with that.  Everything "guile-" belongs to us.  It
might not be good to have programs appear and disappear from release
to release randomly, but having a generic guile-tools wrapper that can
handle multiple installed Guile versions looks like a good idea to me.
Kinda like gcc does it.

I'd say, beef it up and commit it.  Or commit it and then beef it
up. ;)