Hi Mike, (Catching up on email…)
Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> skribis: > Well 2021 has been a strange time for me as it has been for many. At > the beginning of 2021, I had the free time and the good health that > allowed me to imagine being a real contributer again, but, stuff has > changed. I’m sad to read this; I hope you’ll recover soon and feel energized, including to hack the good hack. > So there are a few libraries in the Guile ecosystem I've worked on, > and I'm hoping someone else might be interested in owning them > henceforth. > > Roughly in order of maintainability, from simple to complex, these are > > - guile-aspell: a very simple binding to the Aspell spellcheck > library. This would be an easy task, since it is a Guile-only > binding with no C, and aspell rarely changes > - guile-curl: a C-based but straight-forward binding the the cURL API. > - guile-ncurses: a C-based binding for NCurses, libpanel, and libmenu. It > is a bit convoluted bcause the memory model for ncurses it iself > quite strange. > > Then there a couple of very obscure and little used libraries that I could > punt on, but, I don't really expect any interest > > - guile-plotutils: draw plots in Guile using the plotutils backend > - zile-on-guile: a version of the zile editor, replacing its tiny LISP > interpreter with Guile. > > Guile-GI is a special case because at this point, I'm probably not the > prinmary contributor. But it could use more contributers and could use > a discussion about how to move it forward. I still hope to contribute > as I can. I won’t commit to anything (I’d do a poor job), but these are all useful pieces of software and I hope someone picks them up! Thanks, Ludo’.