For the record, guile-language-picture runs great on macOS, I just had to package guile-rsvg. The only thing missing would be a guile-picture-language tarball, unfortunately Homebrew needs a file to download.
On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 3:55 PM Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <aconchi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > > After seeing Blake's talk I remembered about guile-picture-language, which > looks awesome. I'd like to play with it (and add it to Homebrew Guile) but > unfortunately there's no release tarball as far as I know. For those poor > people not using Guix, would it be possible to cut a release with a tarball? > > Thank you! > > Aleix > > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 2:21 AM Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote: > >> >> Hi Brett, >> >> > I just wanted to publicly say that your picture-language module has >> > already made for a great teaching tool. For people who have been >> > otherwise pensive about trying Scheme (and Guile particular), I have >> > been able to convince people to try the picture language module and they >> > have become fast to understand many basic guile concepts with ease. >> >> That’s great! Thank you for giving it a try. >> >> I started work on what I called “Guile Studio”, a distribution of Emacs >> that comes with Geiser, CUA-mode, flycheck for Guile, relevant tool bar >> icons, and the picture language, among other things, to make it easier >> for people to get started with Guile without having to first learn >> Emacs. >> >> You can find it here: >> >> https://git.elephly.net/software/guile-studio.git >> >> To install it try this: >> >> git clone https://git.elephly.net/software/guile-studio.git >> cd guile-studio >> guix package -L guix -i guile-studio >> >> Run “guile-studio” to start it. >> >> I would appreciate contributions! >> >> -- >> Ricardo >> >> >>