Re: [ANN] Guile Hall Release (v0.1.1)

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Hi Cato,

Catonano writes:

> Il giorno dom 1 lug 2018 alle ore 22:36 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> ha
> scritto:
>
>> Hello Alex,
>>
>> Alex Sassmannshausen <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>> > Otherwise you can get the code from
>> > https://gitlab.com/a-sassmannshausen/guile-hall/, and build (hopefully)
>> > using the traditional
>> > $ autoreconf -vif && ./configure && make
>> > dance.
>> >
>> > What is Guile Hall?
>> >
>> > From the README:
>> >
>> > Hall is a command-line application and a set of Guile libraries that
>> > allow you to quickly create and publish Guile projects.  It allows you
>> > to transparently support the GNU build system, manage a project
>> > hierarchy & provides tight coupling to Guix.
>>
>> This looks really great!  There’s this longstanding issue with
>> distributing Guile code, and this seems to be a good approach.
>>
>> In particular, that it’s not a Guix-only solution, while at the same
>> time offering Guix support is really a wise choice.
>>
>> I think we should advertise it widely, it’ll be immensely helpful to
>> newcomers.  When the manual is more complete ;-), we could refer to it
>> from guile.texi, too.
>>
>
>
> That'd be great
>
> I have a hard time in trying to fill the manual though
>
> The blank page block !
>
> It doesn't help that I don't fully understand the README file
>
> I could use some help
>
> Alex, Maybe you could edit a skeleton of how you see the manual with
> paragraph titles titles only ?

You're quite right to point this out — I should get at least a draft
manual together now.

I will see if I can get this done this week.

Best wishes,

Alex

>
> That would allow me to try to fill it, to some extent.