Re: Minimal Guile

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Mike!

Mike Gran <address@hidden> skribis:

> It'll be fun to try to minimize it down to just
> the guile executable, libguile-*, and a scheme archive file.  And it
> might help with distribution of prebuilt versions.

Are you saying that, say, Lilypond’s tarball would contain libguile.so
and the .go files?  (I guess not but then I don’t get it.  ;-))

> To keep it GNU, I looked around to see what library-style GNU
> solutions exist for treating an archive file like a filesystem.
> Oddly, no good documented (L)GPL GNU options dealing with tar, cpio,
> pax, or 'ar' in an API way.  But, there is a solution for .iso 
> files: libiso9660 from GNU libcdio.

I would borrow code from Bigloo, Chicken, or some other Scheme
implementation that comes with that, or write it anew in Scheme.

Thanks,
Ludo’.