Re: [Sawfish] ... upcoming releases / maintainership

[POMPEE William <william.pompee@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello,

The most important thing we should consider when moving to an other LISP
dialect (or programming language) is the maintainability. Currently
rep-gtk is a weight that could be left to an existing GTK language
binding such as guile-gnome but I'm afraid the Scheme language (R5RS)
isn't powerful enough (alone) to meet our needs. Maybe using the SLIB
library features on top of Scheme could be a "portable" solution instead
of trying to make Rep looks like Scheme.

Regards,

POMPEE William


On 29/06/2012 05:04, Campbell Barton wrote:
> after the racket interview on floss weekly I briefly looked at
> embedding racket in an application, just checked how feasible it was
> compared to python3, according to one of the devs the runtime is ~5mb
> or so. (iirc py lib is under 1mb), for sawfish something minimal like
> tiny-scheme probably is a better fit.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:30 AM, 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
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sawfish ML
>>
> 
> 
> 

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