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Alexander L. Belikoff wrote: > 1. Tcl is a *small* library, which is critical for an extension > language: libtcl.so is ~400K. Guile is very big - current version > of libguile.so is more than 1Mb - almost three times as big as > libtcl. Surprise! Have you tried stripping libguile.so on version 1.2? When stripped it comes out to under 400K. > So far, the most obvious and attractive choice is GTK. It is stable > enough, it is THE GNU GUI toolkit, and it is supposed to be a GUI > of forthcoming GNU Desktop - Gnome. Surprise again! Guile/GTK bindings are inside GNOME.... and I think they're now also available separately. They actually work quite well... the GNOME folks have chosen Guile to be its extensibility language so it can't be *that* bad :) If I were you I'd give Guile another chance before pronouncing its doom. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Read <bitwize@geocities.com>/ http://genpc.home.ml.org Unix / Linux / Windows Hacker, / Boycott Microsoft! Anime & Sonic Fan, / Use Linux/GNU! All Around Nice Guy / Let's keep the Net and the Land FREE! ----------------------------------------------------------------------