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<mwette>noxdafox: it depends. On my mac if I use dynamic-link a library I can later refer to routines using (dynamic-link). That does not work on Centos.

<mwette>but yea. If bound into guile I think yo ucan use just (dynamic-link)

<noxdafox>debian works as well

<ArneBab>OrangeShark: would you allow me to include your article in with-guise-and-guile? It would be a great match: http://www.draketo.de/proj/with-guise-and-guile/index.html

<ArneBab>OrangeShark: with-guise-and-guile is a project which I want to develop into something like an unregularly published collection of articles focussed on elegant and efficient Scheme. I’m working with org-mode because I want to be able to easily turn it into editions (i.e. yearly collection) as PDF, epub, …

<ArneBab>currently the design just provides the bare basics, but that can easily be changed by editing the theme :) (so I can do it while also working on the content)

<OrangeShark>ArneBab: sure, you can do it :)

<ArneBab>thank you!

<OrangeShark>that seems like an interesting project idea.

<daviid>who says python is beautiful? and who wants non-programmers to read and edit your code? :) (teasing time...)

<ArneBab>OrangeShark: let’s get the licensing done right away. Is cc by-sa ok?

<ArneBab>(cc by would make it even easier, but I’m not sure whether it wouldn’t have bigger drawbacks)

<ArneBab>daviid: obviously I do ☺

<OrangeShark>ArneBab: that is what it is currently licensed as

<ArneBab>ah, great!

<ArneBab>(dang, I missed the footer. Sorry)

<OrangeShark>ArneBab: that is okay

<OrangeShark>I've been wondering if we should really all get together and try to reorganize all the projects and documentation together

<ArneBab>I think that’s a pretty large task

<OrangeShark>yeah, but I think it is something we need.

<ArneBab>OrangeShark: is it something you’d like to do?

<OrangeShark>ArneBab: yeah, I keep thinking about it. There is a bunch of things I want to do to try and help Guile.

<ArneBab>do you think you could finish it?

<ArneBab>(that’s the really hard part about this)

<ArneBab>OrangeShark: I added your article: http://www.draketo.de/proj/with-guise-and-guile/guile-projects-with-autotools.html

<OrangeShark>ArneBab: awesome :)

<ArneBab>and the articles now all have license footers

<OrangeShark>ArneBab: not sure, how would you ever know if you have finished?

<ArneBab>that’s the first question to ask before starting the task :)

<ArneBab>for with guise and guile: One task is done when one issue is released

<OrangeShark>it really seems like something that needs to be continually maintained as Guile evolves

<ArneBab>OrangeShark: then it should live in the texinfo files

<ArneBab>to help to keep it matching the source

<OrangeShark>books and articles should also play an important part

<ArneBab>yes, but fragmentation and stale projects have a cost

<OrangeShark>I was reading online what negative point that guile has is the libraries. When you compare it to something like racket, they are all use the same documentation format

<ArneBab>(especieally when stuff is highly coupled)

<ArneBab>ah, so you mean, going through libraries and making them more canonical?

<ArneBab>that sounds like something which would have a purely positive impact — but also like hard work

<OrangeShark>yeah, it a lot of work

<ArneBab>but then, it can easily be split up into tasks you can finish

<ArneBab>each library is one

<OrangeShark>yup

<OrangeShark>would be great if it was more consistent, so same build tools and documentation.

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