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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Mark Galassi wrote: > > Scott> It looks like guile only exists on UNIX right now. Is there > Scott> an effort to put out an NT port? I am not much of a fan of > Scott> NT, but I am looking at using it within a portable > Scott> application. > > Anthony Green has already ported Guile to NT using cygwin32, and maybe > even with native NT tools. I'll let him answer since he's on this > list :-) Unfortunately, cygwin32 doesn't play well with the Sybase libraries yet...although from what I understand there is a new linker on its way that should resolve these problems. Like I said, if a native port doesn't exist, then it may be worth my while (and my boss' while) to put some effort into the port, of course giving back whatever changes we made. > Scott> threading library and I would like to give each thread an > Scott> instance of a guile interpreter. Are there any re-entrancy > Scott> issues I need to concern myself with? > > Yeah: that's a problem. Take a look at the archive of this mailing > list to see if the (many) threading discussions have addressed that > issue. I think the consensus was that you need to run a single Guile > interpreter. That's kind of a bummer...I really wanted each thread to have its own name-space. I'm thinking, though, that I may still be safe giving each thread its own interpreter, since I can guarentee (with a little work) that a context switch will not occur while an interpreter is running. I'll go the archive and see what I can find. > Scott> Lastly, I am looking at using guile within a > Scott> quasi-commerical application (in a tool for use by my > Scott> consulting practice) and I was wondering if there has been > Scott> any discussion about moving to the GL-GPL (the GNU Library > Scott> General Public License) rather than the existing GPL? > > Actually Guile is licenced under the Guile GPL. This has an extra > exception which probably covers your situation: Great! Thanks for the information. -scott -- Scott C. Gray gray@voicenet.com "my keybard is brken" Sybase Professional Services scott.gray@sybase.com http://www.voicenet.com/~gray/sqsh.html