Re: ttn-pers-scheme & mgrabmue-pers-scheme

[Ivan Toshkov]

On 21 Mar 2001 07:12:10 -0500, Keisuke Nishida wrote:
> At 21 Mar 2001 10:36:59 +0200,
> Ivan Toshkov wrote:
> > 
> > I think this already appeard on the list, but how about making something
> > like CPAN? IMHO CPAN is the think that made perl that popular.
> 
> This has been proposed several times, but nobody has enough time
> to organize it.
> 
> I think the first thing we should have is a package manager.
> Could anybody propose and implement one?
> 
> I'm considering something like the following.
> 
> Package Structure
> -----------------
> 
>   guile-foo/        - package directory
>     GPKG.def        - package meta file
>     foo.scm         - module
> 
> Meta File
> ---------
> 
> (define-package foo
>   :category   (utils)
>   :version    "1.0"
>   :require      (((core) > "1.4"))
>   :author     "Keisuke Nishida <address@hidden>"
>   :language   (("\\.scm$" . scheme))
>   :modules    ((foo "foo.scm"))
>   )
> 
> Interface
> ---------
> 
> Package meta commands:
> 
>   ,dist            build a distribution package
>   ,find REGEXP     find a package using the net
>   ,install PKG     download & install a package

Perhaps, there should be commands like: ,update PKG and commands for
handling the package dependencies.

> 
> I appreciate more detailed discussion on this.

Do you think the packager should know anything about the guile module
system? If so, what?
(And what happened to godot? :P)

> 
> Kei
>