Re: libguile and readline (again!)

[Westley A Sherman <wsherman@umich.edu>]

For what I use guile for (atom selection in a molecular graphics program)
extra functionality may be less important than an ability to use it on
systems on which the installation of lots of non-standard libraries would
be a pain so I like the idea of have a libguile that depends on as few
other libraries as possible. Also, I ended up writing my own guile
interface so I like the idea of separating out the REPL stuff.

Although it's not a very unixy thing to do, it would be nice to be able to
distribute a demo version of a program as a single (statically linked)
executable file that one could download and run without having to install
anything else. Someone who downloads a program that uses guile will also
need to download the directory of ice-9 code and set the environment
variable GUILE_LOAD_PATH. I doubt it's feasible but with that in mind it
would be nice if there was an easy way for ice-9 start up code to be
included directly in the single executable file.

-Westley