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<ArneBab>old: thank you!
<daviid>jan0t: you don't needs guix to devel and/or run guile made apps or libs - not sure why/where you got this wrong idea
<daviid>jan0t: I perso (strongly) recommend to use autotool, to make your work/project (app and/or lib) available to others, then let istro package those if/when they wish
<jan0t>daviid: what is this autotool
<daviid>jan0t: we refer to the autotool chain, the use of autoconf, automake ... a bit of a steep learning curve, but imo, really worth it - here is a very good skeleton you can read and learn from -
<daviid> https://erikedrosa.com/2017/10/29/guile-projects-with-autotools.html
<daviid>jan0t: this skeleton misses a few things but it is an excellent start (it misses doc, tests, and if needed, how to compile your own C lib (like g-golf, but there are other examples out there ...)
<jan0t>yes ,guile ecossystem is pretty different
<jan0t>i am reading the gnu guile manual to familiarize myself with it
<jan0t>the syntax and all
<jan0t>I was used to T and NIL to truth or false
<daviid>jan0t: once you got familiar with what is being explained in the above link, then pick a projects and look at it/copy/adapt ... then ask for help here
<jan0t>guile with its #f #t and case sensitiveness is different
<jan0t>and a bit annoying ngl
<daviid>you'll get used to it, then hate T nil ... just give yourself some tine ...
<jan0t>but cool nonetheless, I like lisp
<jan0t>except clojure
<jan0t>clojure can burn
<jan0t>:v
<daviid>once you've passed 'the baby steps' you seem to be going through now, wrt guile I mean, then pick a project a look learn, both its coe and how it was autotool chained, like chickadee for example, or g-golf (isclaimer, I a the g-golf author ...)
<daviid>jan0t: g-golf, g-golf-gtk-4-examples and g-golf-adw-1-examples are in devuan as well, fwiw
<jan0t>thank you
<daviid>welcome
<jan0t>I am compiling guile
<jan0t>I used make alone and it was slow asf, then i did make -j 4 and now it is faster
<daviid>jan0t: why not instsalling the guile devuan pkg ...