Re: Portable code

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

Lassi Kortela <lassi@lassi.io> writes:

>> Would it be possible to start into that by creating prefixes for the
>> different package repositories?
>> (akkuscm ...) and (snow-fort ...)
>
> I advise against doing that, as the same package can be published to
> multiple repositories.

Would that be a problem? All it needs is a reference that reliably works
in Guile. The akku/snow-fort equivalent for srfi.

Maybe even something like the shims in the r7rs benchmarks: they have
preludes for the different schemes with which they can run the tests.

Making a set of Guile preludes and for each package some info which
prelude is needed to run it could make the packages work out of the box
for many. And it could be generalized to many different Schemes.

>> (how do I find out whether they are portable? Do I have to try?)
>
> Last I checked, you just have to try.

Maybe we could start there for portability: create a list of packages
which work with Guile. Do you happen to have the start of such a list
from your testing?

Best wishes,
Arne
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