Re: [RFC] Guile project generator

2015-09-14 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Heya, This is fun, because I recently have been thinking about exactly this kind of project. I like that you propose it become part of guild, and agree with the basic set of files to be generated (funnily enough I was basing my base files on guix too ;-) ). So to the project I say "Aye, this

Re: [RFC] Guile project generator

2015-09-14 Thread dsmich
David Thompson wrote: > Hello Guilers, > > Following a conversation on #guile about making it easier to generate > boilerplate for new Guile projects and reduce the need to snarf and/or > monkey type build system configs from other projects, I would like to > throw out an

Re: [RFC] Guile project generator

2015-09-14 Thread Nala Ginrut
Well, I think it's a good idea to have such tool. And I would recommend add the ticket/spec skeletons of guildhall & Guix, say, pkg-list.scm, for better packaging work. Maybe we should consider to make it a GNU standard one, if so, we need to add ChangeLog and NEWS. And BUGS/HACKING/THANKS could

[RFC] Guile project generator

2015-09-14 Thread David Thompson
Hello Guilers, Following a conversation on #guile about making it easier to generate boilerplate for new Guile projects and reduce the need to snarf and/or monkey type build system configs from other projects, I would like to throw out an idea for a new guild subcommand: guild init foo