Re: [RFC] Guile project generator

[Nala Ginrut]

Well, I think it's a good idea to have such tool.
And I would recommend add the ticket/spec skeletons of guildhall & Guix,
say, pkg-list.scm, for better packaging work.

Maybe we should consider to make it a GNU standard one, if so, we need
to add ChangeLog and NEWS. And BUGS/HACKING/THANKS could be optional.

But I have a question that most of the time I need build-aux stuffs, I
don't know if it's necessary to add to this subcommand.

Happy hacking!


On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 16:20 -0400, David Thompson wrote:
> Hello Guilers,
> 
> Following a conversation on #guile about making it easier to generate
> boilerplate for new Guile projects and reduce the need to snarf and/or
> monkey type build system configs from other projects, I would like to
> throw out an idea for a new guild subcommand:
> 
>     guild init foo --license=gpl3+ --author="Lemme Tweakit <address@hidden>"
> 
> This could create the following skeleton files:
> 
>     foo/COPYING 
>     foo/README 
>     foo/configure.ac
>     foo/Makefile.am
>     foo/pre-inst-env.in
>     foo/foo.scm
>     foo/foo/config.scm.in
>     foo/tests/foo.scm
>     foo/doc/foo.texi
> 
> These files cover the basic necessities for a good source tree:
> License and copyright information, introductory text, build system,
> manual, base module, configuration module, test suite, and
> pre-installation environment.  The exact set of files and their
> default contents should be adjusted to fit community best practices.
> I modeled this possible skeleton directory on Guix, because Guix is
> great. :)
> 
> What do you all think?  More importantly, would anyone like to
> implement this?
> 
> Happy hacking,
>