| Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:29:53 +0900 | From: Alex Shinn <[email protected]> | | There have been multiple attempts[1][2] at creating a shared | repository of Scheme code analogous to Perl's CPAN, but none have | gained much traction.
SLIB <http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/SLIB> is the largest and longest collaboration facilitating portable (implementation-neutral) Scheme for non-trivial applications. SLIB is used by Guile (and hence the Gnome Desktop), placing it in many if not most GNU/Linux installations. Its a safe bet that Guile (and hence SLIB) installations outnumber all other Scheme installations combined. That sounds like traction to me. | On the other hand, implementation-specific repositories[3][4][5] | have been very successful. | | As an effort to unify these (and seriously, we're a small | community, we need all the unification we can get), I would like to | set up a CSAN-like system based on the R7RS module system, so that | any Scheme that supports R7RS modules can easily share code. In the spirit of unification, I hope that early in your design process you will include a migration path from SLIB to your repository. _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
