Re: the viability of translators, and Guile itself

[Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>]

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:

> Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:
> 
> > That path involves real documentation, a source-level debugger,
> > Guile/GTK, GOOPS, generational GC, and internationalization.
> 
> As to Guile/Gtk, I'm doing a miserable job lately.  It is still way to
> hard to get started with it and it is still too incomplete to get very
> far with it.
> 
> However, I think that the fundamental machinery is well established.
> I think contributing to it is quite easy.  So, I'd like to encourage
> everyone who is interested in Guile and Gtk (and Gnome) to just try it
> out the guile-gtk package, with the confidence that once you get stuck
> there is almost certainly an easy way out.
> 
>     http://www.ping.de/sites/zagadka/guile-gtk/

Scwm has embraced guile-gtk, too, and would love to have more people
capable with using guile-gtk; there is code in our scheme/ directory
that uses guile-gtk for more examples, though Scwm is still a bit
unstable with guile-gtk running (unfortunately, there is so much varied
code running that it's hard to tell where the bug is; generally is
manifest in some deep down guile C function being very unhappy).

See http://serveuse.mit.edu/scwm/ for scwm.

I'm hoping to see guile-gtk improve quite a bit, but it's definitely
usable now, and Marius has been very willing to accept our patches and
improvements.  Thanks, Marius!

Greg