Re: Let’s update the web site’s library page!

[Thompson, David]

Hey Ludo,

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Guilers!
>
> Until we have a proper guildhall, <https://gnu.org/s/guile/libraries/>
> is a simple way to let people know about goodies available for Guile.
>
> Please consider adding entries for your favorite packages or updating
> existing entries!
>
> The code for that page is here:
>
>   
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile/guile-web.git/tree/website/apps/base/libraries-page.scm#n68
>
> You can either send us a patch (as produced by ‘git format-patch’)
> against this page, or just an entry like this:
>
>   (define guile-lib
>     (package #:name "Guile-lib"
>              #:description "Guile-Lib is intended as an accumulation place for
>   pure-scheme Guile modules, allowing for people to cooperate integrating 
> their
>   generic Guile modules into a coherent library.  Think \"a down-scaled,
>   limited-scope CPAN for Guile\"."
>              #:url "http://www.nongnu.org/guile-lib/";
>              #:tags '("Guile 2.2" "Guile 2.0" "Guile 1.8")
>              #:license "LGPL 2.1 or later"))
>
> Thanks in advance.  :-)

Nice initiative!  Here are few snippets for some of my projects.  Thanks!

(define haunt
  (package #:name "Haunt"
           #:description "Haunt is a static site generator.  Haunt
features a functional build system and an extensible interface for
reading articles in any format."
           #:url "https://haunt.dthompson.us";
           #:tags '("Guile 2.2" "Guile 2.0")
           #:license "GPL 3 or later"))

(define guile-sdl2
  (package #:name "Guile-SDL2"
           #:description "Guile-SDL2 provides bindings for the SDL2 C
shared library.  The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's
foreign function interface."
           #:url "https://dthompson.us/projects/guile-sdl2.html";
           #:tags '("Guile 2.2" "Guile 2.0")
           #:license "LGPL 3 or later"))

(define chickadee
  (package #:name "Chickadee"
           #:description "Chickadee is a game development toolkit for
Guile built on top of SDL2 and OpenGL."
           #:url "https://dthompson.us/projects/chickadee.html";
           #:tags '("Guile 2.2" "Guile 2.0")
           #:license "GPL 3 or later"))