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- Subject: Re: [Sawfish] ... upcoming releases / maintainership
- From: dmg <dmg@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:41:27 -0700
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It was written by John Harper, the author of Sawfish, even before
sawfish. I am curious, why is it necessary to switch away from it?
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Heow Goodman <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 1 move to another LISP/Scheme dialect (still no decision or team)
>
> There was a discussion on this topic on LispNYC recently:
>
> http://groups.google.com/a/lispnyc.org/group/lisp/browse_thread/thread/a66e9796e1e0ed1f/60dfb0b91326bf71?lnk=gst&q=guile#60dfb0b91326bf71
>
> I've personally embedded TinyScheme in several projects, it's trivial to
> build. However Racket was voted the "Best Common-Lisp Development
> Environment" even though it's not CL! :-) ...plus it also runs on
> just about anything: x86, MIPS, ARM, PPC, SPARC
>
> I'm fully ignorant of Rep's history, just curious why Sawfish didn't go
> with Guile?
>
> - h
>
> On 06/10/2012 05:10 AM, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
>> There's no list, but stuff includes:
>>
>>
>>
>> near future:
>>
>> 1 move to another LISP/Scheme dialect (still no decision or team)
>>
>> 2 merge Sawfish-MMC (only partially in 1.9.0 due lack of time)
>>
>> 3 use XCB
>>
>> 4 use GTK3 (majorly effects rep-gtk. Needs to be ported to G-I
>> (gobject-introspection) in order to wrap GTK3 -- only a handfull of code
>> in Sawfish itself that would need a port)
>>
>>
>>
>> not-so-near future:
>>
>> - prepare for Wayland
>>
>>
>>
>> ... [2] might be the easiest, but the other 4 require much more manpower
>> than we currently have.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
>
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