Hey all,
We need to get together a few Guile-proposed projects for SoC students
to hack on. How about we collect them here in this thread. I'll kick
it off with one idea:
* A CPAN for Guile. My initial thoughts are that you want a
combination of APT-like discovery and download of sources of
software, and a stowfs-like local storage, allowing you to update a
tree of symlinks in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/guile/2.0/ to add packages, roll
back changes, etc. See
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
for more on $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
C extensions are outside the scope of this project. IMO a CPAN for
Guile should not compile C helper libraries.
You can start here by doing a survey of what other schemes do:
chicken and racket being the obvious ones, and also perhaps taking a
look at cabal and other CPAN-alikes developed in the last 10 years.
You'd need to define a format for code -- tarballs or something.
You need to think about signing too, and the possibility both of
dumb servers and smart servers. You'll need to write a web client
in Guile, if one hasn't been written yet. In short, a large project
for an ambitious and careful hacker!
Regards,
Andy
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