On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 17:06 -0700, Vincent Manis wrote: > There have been a lot of good ideas presented on this topic, and I > agree with most of them. I'd like to lay out a few ideas, some of > which restate things that have already been said, but which I hope can > help to flesh out a vision of what we're trying to accomplish.
> [...] > local library directories should be managed in an > appropriate way, considering that many Schemers would want personal > libraries, rather than system-wide ones. Yes. The package manager must be able to do personal/local/non-system-wide package managing. > Ideally, the library manager > should allow users to forget about manipulating environment variables > completely. Yes -- to forget about it after initial configuration (which an OS distro could do for you). > [...] > I'd ideally like to see a library manager that works essentially > unchanged (though there might be system-specific code) on as many R6RS > systems as possible. Yes. That's certainly possible. Any system-specific stuff should be isolated to *.IMPL.sls compatibility libraries. (Aziz and Andreas already know this.) -- : Derick ----------------------------------------------------------------
