Il giorno sab, 19/02/2022 alle 10.33 -0500, Olivier Dion via General
Guile related discussions ha scritto:
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2022, Neil Jerram wrote:
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> > Personally, I am now a big fan of Scheme-centric + FFI, as it means
> > always writing Scheme and never having to hack C code. If everyone
>
On Sat, 19 Feb 2022, Neil Jerram wrote:
> Personally, I am now a big fan of Scheme-centric + FFI, as it means
> always writing Scheme and never having to hack C code. If everyone
> agreed on that, we could discard all the C-centric parts of the
> manual, and focus the rest on a clearer use
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 16:59, Blake Shaw wrote:
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> https://tube.nocturlab.fr/videos/watch/2b55ca09-f0fd-4899-9cb0-9632cd90b3d1
Wow, what a great reminder of things past! I mean "past" in the sense
that I used to be very strongly focused on this, but have not been for
some years. The material
Olivier Dion writes:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, Blake Shaw wrote:
>
>> looking forward to any feedback.
>
> Some things that I think could use some improvement:
>
> When you play a video while you're talking, make sure that the
> volume of the video is very low so we can still hear you.
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, Blake Shaw wrote:
> looking forward to any feedback.
Some things that I think could use some improvement:
When you play a video while you're talking, make sure that the
volume of the video is very low so we can still hear you. For
example, around 4.20 I
Blake Shaw writes:
hiya guix,
my apologies again for the hold up in getting this video to
everyone. for those who won't have time to view it, I will rehash the
suggested changes in the 5 minutes before; perhaps because of the delay
in being able to get this together for everyone we can view my
hiya guix,
my apologies for not turning my presentation yet! I know people
expressed excitement about it so I just want to give you a heads up that
I just finished it, but alas I'm too tired to record the video now. but
I will do it ang get it turned in first thing in the morning.
but i think it
Lol, wish I had seen this before I shot off my other email. This is
great! Glad to see a lot of overlap between our emails.
Very much agree with "How to setup a project" example, I should consider
offering my own example at some point after Blake has worked through his
approach. Really onboard with this comment overall, the fact that C
interop is included directly in the manual is important, and something I've
been
Looking forward to your talk Blake, don't worry, the gist came across the
first time I was just offering my own experience and opinions of the
documentation. Genuinely excited to see what you come up with,
documentation is one of my favorite things in free software actually
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at
Daniel Tornabene writes:
> just a simple guile user here, sitting next to my printed out 2.2.6
> manual. I'm interested in this topic as well though I'd say my own
> experience with the documentation is less a problem with it as it is
> then with its organization. Perhaps I'm an anomaly, but I
just a simple guile user here, sitting next to my printed out 2.2.6 manual.
I'm interested in this topic as well though I'd say my own experience with
the documentation is less a problem with it as it is then with its
organization. Perhaps I'm an anomaly, but I enjoy and appreciate a manual
with
On 22/02/08 02:36pm, Blake Shaw wrote:
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> Dear Guix (and guile users, who I've Cc'd),
>
> My apologies for turning this in last minute. There had been discussion about
> this proposal on the guix mailing list, and I had missed that I need to
> submit a formal proposal until roptat mentioned
james writes:
> I too would like to state my interest in your talk. As someone who is
> relatively new to GNU Guile, I definitely see the interest in such a
> discussion as I do my self sometimes find the documentation a bit hard
> to navigate although I don't claim to have any knowledge of the
On Tue, 08 Feb 2022, Blake Shaw wrote:
> * SUMMARY: Recent discussions on the Guix mailing list revealed that
> many in the Guix community have found the Guile Reference Manual
> difficult to navigate as newcomers. That should come as no surprise --
> in PDF form, the docs span approximately /850
Neil Jerram writes:
> Speaking as one of the past authors of the manual, I look forward to
> hearing your thoughts. It is genuinely challenging to present this
> amount of material and explain its complexity, and there is no reason
> at all to consider any current arrangement as cast in stone.
Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski writes:
> I could not put a word on it precisely but I was in between the feeling of
> having too much info or not
> enough. haha
I can totally relate! That succinctly captures part of the core
issue -- I might quote you on that if you don't mind ;)
--
“In girum imus
Hey Blake,
I look forward to read/watch your thoughts on this topic !
Few years ago I was this newcomer navigating in the Guile Reference Manual.
I could not put a word on it precisely but I was in between the feeling
of having too much info or not enough. haha
Best regards,
Jérémy
Le
Hi Blake,
On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 08:55, Blake Shaw wrote:
> [...]
>
> Serving at once as a referrence manual & API specification, the large size
> may in part be attributed to what simultaneously makes Guile an appealing
> project to contribute to, while also rendering the documentation process
Dear Guix (and guile users, who I've Cc'd),
My apologies for turning this in last minute. There had been discussion about
this proposal on the guix mailing list, and I had missed that I need to submit
a formal proposal until roptat mentioned it at Fosdem. Nonetheles here it is:
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