Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage Category: dev-scheme

[Blake Matheny <jake@gentoo.org>]

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I know this is policy, but in the case where there are several interpreters
available (such is the case of Scheme), might it be more reasonable to put a
popular interpreter in dev-lang, and the rest into dev-scheme? This should
keep clutter in dev-lang to a minimum, and still allow users to easily browse
by their preferred language. What is the thought here?

-Blake


Whatchu talkin' 'bout, Willis?
> > The builds that I feel should be moved to dev-scheme are: dev-lisp/plt,
> > dev-lisp/kawa, dev-lisp/mzscheme, dev-lisp/bigloo, dev-lisp/gauche,
> > dev-lisp/drscheme, dev-lisp/chicken, dev-lisp/mit-scheme and dev-util/guile.
> > There may be others that I have missed, (Matt, anything?). Guile has the most
> > dependencies, with around 34 of them. There may be some debate as to whether
> > or not guile should be moved, but as guile is a Scheme interpreter I think
> > it's appropriate.
> 
> We seem to have difficulties being consistent in this area, but actual
> language compilers / interpreters really belong in dev-lang (for
> example, python is in dev-lang, while python extensions and libraries
> are located in dev-python).
> 
> Best,
> g2boojum
> -- 
> Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>



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