Re: Where are the guile libraries?

[Amirouche Boubekki]

Le 2015-08-28 21:31, Ian Zimmerman a écrit :
> I'm a newbie so please be gentle.

Héllo Ian!

> Suppose I want to write a substantial program in guile.  Where can I
> find the "batteries"?

It depends of what you mean by batteries. bsddb is not part of Python as 
of Python 3.

> For example, I want to read and write Berkeley DB
> files (or any simple persistent hash format).  Do I really have to 
> write
> my own code for that?

Regarding Berkeley DB there is no bindings for it. But there is for gdbm 
[1] and
wiredtiger [2]. Wiredtiger is similar to bsddb but faster. I've done 
those bindings
recently I don't use it in real applications. But I will fix any bug you 
find and
help you get it running. There is an example database build on top 
wiredtiger in the
repository.

[1] https://github.com/ijp/guile-gdbm
[2] https://git.framasoft.org/a-guile-mind/guile-wiredtiger

>  I see that there used to be a guile-db package in
> Debian, but it depended in guile 1.6 which was some time ago :-)  And
> anyway it is gone from current stable and testing, and there's no
> upstream link for me to follow and check if it's any good for current
> guile.

> And this is just one example.  JSON, YAML, RFC 822 parsing, etc.
> Basically all the stuff that's in Python standard library.

There a json library somewhere on github.

>  Note I'm
> _not_ complaining that's guile doesn't bundle it like Python does.

It seems like you are complaining :)

> I'm asking if it exists, anywhere, at all, possibly in small pieces, 
> but
> ready to be reused.

I can't help you further, without more precise request.

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