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Re: build-guile [fwd: g-wrap-0.3.9 configure problem]


John Tobey <jtobey@channel1.com> writes:

> > From: karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)
> > 
> >  I plan to try and fully understand how Guile works over the next 6
> >  months to a year or so...  I don't know how long it will really take.
> >  It's not the only thing I do during my copious spare time.
> 
> I would guess that the closest thing to complete documentation is the
> archive of this mailing list.  I've been on it two or three months
> (though I don't actually use Guile) and have formed this hypothesis:
> People send questions about nifty new undocumented features, and
> Mikael or someone else replies, often with an example and some
> discussion.
> 
> Perhaps the best way to make Guile approachable for someone like me is
> to paste those replies and examples from the mail archive into a
> texinfo file.

I definitely sympathize with you.  Real documentation is probably the
single most important project Guile needs.

On the other hand, I feel no responsibility at all to work on it.
(Except for things that I've written myself, of course, but given the
current state of the documentation, that isn't particularly inspiring
either.)

/mdj