From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14441 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2004 17:10:21 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 26 Jan 2004 17:10:21 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlAFf-0003rw-UJ for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:10:19 +0000 Received: (qmail 19439 invoked by uid 50004); 26 Jan 2004 17:10:18 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 26170 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2004 17:10:18 +0000 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:26:38 -0500 From: Blake Matheny To: Grant Goodyear Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: <20040126172638.GA19441@dev.gentoo.org> References: <20040124215745.GA4315@dev.gentoo.org> <1075108037.13477.11.camel@green> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1075108037.13477.11.camel@green> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New Portage Category: dev-scheme X-Archives-Salt: 489b9351-4d38-48f5-b093-edb3880fb492 X-Archives-Hash: ed2463c027d530a1b55416760adcd420 --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 brow= se 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/g= uile. > > There may be others that I have missed, (Matt, anything?). Guile has th= e most > > dependencies, with around 34 of them. There may be some debate as to wh= ether > > or not guile should be moved, but as guile is a Scheme interpreter I th= ink > > it's appropriate. >=20 > 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). >=20 > Best, > g2boojum > --=20 > Grant Goodyear --=20 Blake Matheny jake@gentoo.org Computer Science is merely the post-Turing http://dev.gentoo.org/~jake/ decline in formal systems theory. http://mkfifo.net/gpg.key --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAFU3OTVzM/wQPpQIRAl6PAKCZ3oJQl3IEe/ML9NOlRxno3N9+vgCgoCKn KsCSdrFvBIK8ZTocjPOYCVs= =PfHg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU--