Re: syncase merged to master

[Andy Wingo]

Hey Julian,

On Mon 20 Apr 2009 22:56, Julian Graham <address@hidden> writes:

>> We're fixing all of these. Within the next couple months. We're doing
>> great work, and we should be proud. #scheme can go to hell.
>
> Well, *you're* fixing most of them

While it's true I have had a bit of time lately to poke at things,
you've been looking at R6RS syntactic integration, Ludovic has been on
the R6RS library problem (in addition to doing great work on the GC),
Neil does great work with the manual and on subtle bugs, Mike will bring
us something nice with Unicode support... and then besides the past that
we are building on, there are those waiting in the wings to hack Elisp
and threads and persistent data structures and better Emacs integration
and on and on and on.

It's a lovely time to hack Guile :-)

> some kind of marketing blitz is in order. Can the FSF / GNU project
> help with publicity in any way?

I think you're totally right. FSF/GNU can help, but we need to have the
vision -- strongly articulated, so as to cut through cobwebs of the
past.

But, and this is my perception, I think we have to be ready for the push
when it comes. Documentation is /really/ important in that regard. As
far as the new developments are concerned, we need to have a depth of
documentation in place -- and already some of the stuff I wrote a few
months ago needs updating already. 

So I think we need to have our ducks in a row before we really start
pushing FSF/GNU.

Andy
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