gEDA-dev: My £0.02 worth

[Dan McMahill]

Peter TB Brett wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> There is a debate about moving gEDA to using some scripting language other 
> than Guile Scheme for extensibility.  I oppose this.
> 
>   - Scheme has unambiguous syntax
>   - Scheme is easy to debug
>   - Guile is fast
>   - Guile is under the same license as gEDA
>   - Adding new Guile functions in C code is really easy.


and despite my grumbling, guile works on more systems than some of the 
other scheme implementations I've seen.  I'm probably a bit of an 
oddball in that I think SICP is a wonderful book and I like scheme for 
EDA stuff.

> The current complaints seem to be about the fact that the 1.6 stable and 1.8 
> stable branches of Guile are different.  This seems to come as a surprise, 
> even considering the fact that there are THREE YEARS of development between 
> them.

mostly I'm grumbling because I'm having to take a few days off of 
thinking about geda work to port guile to the two platforms I use. 
1.8.1 certainly is not building cleanly for me on non linux/i386 systems 
right now.  I'd be curious to know how it works for someone on a 64-bit 
linux and also something like darwin.


btw, anyone know how to run the guile testsuite from within gdb so I can 
figure out why it segfaults on some tests?

-Dan