guildhall packages

[Ian Price]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.lisp.guile.devel as well.


Hello all,

As some of you are aware, I am in the process of packaging pieces of
software for a repository to be used with the guildhall package
manager for guile 2[0].

This is just a quick update on the progress of that, and a small
enticement to try to convince you to test it out[1]. Remember linus's
law, "given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow" :P

Currently packaged is:

- fectors
  Functional Vectors in Scheme

- bloom$B!](Bfilter
  Bloom Filter in Scheme

- clf
  Common Log Format Parser

- wak
 Wak is an r6rs porting project
 - wak$B!](Bprometheus
   prototype-based message-passing object system

 - wak$B!](Bparscheme
   parser combinator library

 - wak$B!](Bcommon
   common infrastructure for the Wak ports

 - wak$B!](Btrc$B!](Btesting
   simple testing facility

 - wak$B!](Bsyn$B!](Bparam
   operators with extended parameter syntax

 - wak$B!](Birregex
   portable regular expressions

 - wak$B!](Bfoof$B!](Bloop
   extensible looping library

 - wak$B!](Briastreams
   lazy streams

 - wak$B!](Bssax
   functional XML parsing framework

 - wak$B!](Bfmt
   formatting combinator library

- pfds
  Purely Functional Data Structures

- srfi

- sdom
  An implementation of the W3C Dom in Scheme

- scss
  A library for parsing, querying and emitting CSS

- guile$B!](Blib
  a down-scaled, limited-scope CPAN for Guile

- industria
  G$(D+S(Bran Weinholt's library collection
  (includes networking, crypot, text encoding, compression, bytevector
  packing/unpackaing, and an amd64 disassembler)


With more to come!!

You can get more information on these libraries by doing, e.g.

 $ guild show guile-lib

or install one with, e.g. 

 $ guild install guile-lib


So, that's the shameless plug, but I feel it is important we get used to
the idea that guile has a package manager, and that we should be using
it :).

If you think was a useful email, I can post a periodic update on new
packages and/or provide an atom feed for them. If not, I'll shut up :)
As mentioned previously, experimentation into a user upload facility is
ongoing, but if you want a library packaged/included shoot me a mail
(pure scheme only at the moment, hopefully scheme & c / elisp /
ecmascript / brainfuck soon)


0. https://github.com/ijp/guildhall/
1. Installation instructions -- https://gist.github.com/3327296

-- 
Ian Price -- shift-reset.com

"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is
the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"