Re: Newbie thoughts on Guile Hall + Guix

[Aleix Conchillo Flaqué]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 12:28 PM Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:

> Aleix Conchillo Flaqué schreef op wo 09-02-2022 om 12:05 [-0800]:
> > - Assuming you find the library you need... how do you start using it?
> How
> > do you install it? Now there's Guix, but not everyone has Guix or wants
> to
> > install Guix. I'm on macOS currently so I can't even install Guix
> > unfortunately.
>
> About finding and installing libraries:
>
> Nix and ‘homebrew’ support Mac (MacOS? macOS? OS-X? no idea what the
> ‘proper’ spelling is).  I don't know if Nix and homebrew have much
> Guile stuff though ...
>
>
Homebrew has actually :-). I created Guile Homebrew a couple of years ago
and it now has 51 Guile related formulas between libraries and application.

https://github.com/aconchillo/homebrew-guile

Maybe I didn't phrase it properly. What I would love is something like:

guile add guile-json==4.5.2

This would download guile-json and would create a dependencies file for my
project. The dependencies could be global or per project. And I would love
this to work across different platforms.

Aleix