Re: What tools do you use with Guile?

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Erik Edrosa <address@hidden> writes:

> Something I have been wondering is what tools does the community use to
> work on their GNU Guile projects?
>
> What do you use to build your projects? Do you use autotools,
> handwritten Makefiles, some other build system, or don't even use any
> build tools?

When I need a build tool, I typically use autotools.

When I don’t, my scripts use bash-indirection, for example when I want
to trigger auto-compilation of other files before the script starts, or
adjust the library path. See the maximum portability example on
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-2.0/guile-ref/Scripting-Examples.html#Scripting-Examples

> How do you manage your software written in Guile? Do you use a package
> manager like GNU Guix, use the build system to install packages, or just
> copy files to your project directories?

For simple projects, I just run from the projects Mercurial
repositories.

Also I use a Guix overlay to install Guile dependencies, and I install
user-tools to ~/.local/bin (along with ~/.local/lib/guile/2.2/ ).

> What do you use to test your projects? srfi-64, guile-lib, or some other
> library?

hand-written tests and srfi-64.

> What text editor do you use? GNU Emacs, vim, or some other editor? What
> extensions do you use for your editor?

Emacs.

> Do you use other languages on Guile? Wisp, Lua, or some other language?

Wisp (along with Scheme).

> Any other tool worth mentioning?

Bash, since I run my scripts with shell indirection.

> Thanks,
> Erik (OrangeShark)

Thank you for the nice question! :-)

Best wishes,
Arne
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