Re: cmod-play 1 available + modsup.h additions

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= <address@hidden>
   Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:37:38 +0100

   I actually don't see the point in having different namespaces for
   Guile things. :)

what you don't see i can't make you see, but i'm happy to understand
your not seeing and leave it at that.  i'll probably change "M" to
"GH_M", that is, add to GH_ rather than appropriate another namespace
entirely.  thanks for the feedback.

   The doc snarfing example you gave is a nice thing.  Unfortunately,
   there is no such thing in Guile 1.6.  Is there any reason for
   continuing development for 1.4.x rather than working on 1.6.x?

there are practical reasons having to do w/ lack of write access to the
repository, primarily.  a secondary reason is that 1.6.x introduces
onerous "deprecation" machinery, and insists on installing lots of
un-neighborly shared object libraries in ${libdir}, which would be
difficult to reconcile w/ 1.4.x's compatibility and encapsulation goals.
1.7.x has lots of internal improvements (that i will snarf for 1.4.x
once they settle down) but its packaging still suffers the same problems
as 1.6.x as far as i can tell (from watching the cvs commits m.l.).

re doc snarfing, you might try to simply overlay the 1.4.x scripts/
subdir over that of the other branches, or add its parent dir to
GUILE_LOAD_PATH, or explore guile-tools options `--scriptsdir' and
`--guileversion' (see "guile-tools --help").

i've been toying w/ the idea of excerpting and releasing scripts/ as a
separate package entirely, for the benefit of other guile branches, but
haven't found the time/inclination.  feel free to complete this program
and put your name on it, etc.:

  #!/bin/sh
  # $1 is an optional tag spec, like "-D DATE" or "-r TAG"
  set -ex
  cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/home/ttn/cvsroot \
      co -d guile-scripts $1 guile-core/scripts
  cd guile-scripts
  cp -p ${someplace}/{autogen.sh,configure.ac,Makefile.am,...} .
  sh -x autogen.sh
  ./configure -C --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix /tmp/a/b/c
  make
  make check
  make install
  make installcheck
  make uninstall
  make dist
  mv guile-scripts-*.tar.gz ..
  cd ..
  rm -rf guile-scripts

you just need to define ${someplace} and put the correct files there.
if you publish this package you would help other users invest in their
freedom (should they have the desire to do so).

thi