Re: Happy birthday, Guile!

[Roel Janssen]

On Sun, 2020-02-16 at 15:56 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello Guilers!
> 
> Today, it’s been 9 years since Guile 2.0 came out!
> 
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2011-02/msg00173.html
> 
> It’s impressive how much has been accomplished since 2.0, and how what
> seemed like a pipe dream back then came into reality with 3.0.  I think
> Guile 2.0 started a renaissance of Guile, and it’s in bloom now.  :-)
> 
> We used to have a “Guile potluck” for the anniversary, where people
> would bring their own hacks and virtually join for a party.  We missed
> it this year, but if there’s a nice hack that you’d like to share, now
> is a good time!
> 

It's good to see that GNU Guile is going strong!

Since we're sharing hacks, here are a few from my project:

- An LDAP authenticator using the FFI and openldap:
https://github.com/UMCUGenetics/sparqling-genomics/blob/master/web/ldap/authenticate.scm.in

We use it on a site-local deployment.

- HTTP digest authentication:
https://github.com/UMCUGenetics/sparqling-genomics/blob/master/web/sparql/driver.scm#L82-L157

This has been tested against Virtuoso endpoints.

- Multi-format HTTP requests/responses for building RESTful interfaces:
https://github.com/UMCUGenetics/sparqling-genomics/blob/master/web/www/db/api.scm

It's not perfect, and probably needs some work to be generic enough to suite
other use-cases than the one I wrote it for.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen