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Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts
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Brandon Invergo |
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Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts |
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Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:36:18 +0200 |
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Hi Chris,
> I just learned about Guix from the GNU Google Summer of Code project page,
> and I'm very interested in
> the idea of a fully functional package manager. That one of the project ideas
> was bundling the
> distribution with a window manager sparked in me the idea to bundle it with a
> fully-functional window
> manager. I originally envisioned xmonad as the wm of choice, due to my
> interest in Haskell, and
> emailed Ludo to this effect. He told me it might be more beneficial to use a
> natively Guile Scheme
> wm, which he observed are few, not very mature, and generally stagnant
> already. Upon looking around
> further, I came across stumpwm, implemented in 100% Common Lisp, so I propose
> a compromise: adapt and
> package stumpwm for use with Guile Scheme and Guix, and then use the
> resulting environment to have a
> free software distribution configurable primarily in Guile Scheme.
Check out nwm:
https://github.com/nizmic/nwm
It's written in XCB and uses Guile. I don't know how complete it is
yet, though. I haven't had much time to play around with it but it seems
to be generally working. It has a REPL and it uses Scheme functions to
manage window placement. I think it would be a better choice. Stumpwm is
huge and I'm pretty sure it has a lot of dependencies on Common Lisp features.
-brandon
ps - sorry if you got this message twice
- Google Summer of Code project concepts, Chris Dale, 2013/04/08
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- Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts,
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- Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/04/11
- Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts, Chris Dale, 2013/04/11
- Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/04/11
- Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts, Chris Dale, 2013/04/11
- Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts, Nikita Karetnikov, 2013/04/11
- Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts, Ludovic Courtès, 2013/04/12
- Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts, Chris Dale, 2013/04/12
- Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts, Cyril Roelandt, 2013/04/14