gh_ interface [was Re: thanks]

["Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>]

Greg Harvey <Greg.Harvey@thezone.net> writes:

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> I think a very good idea right now would be for everybody who's
> writing non-trivial c programs with guile to provide a list of things
> that they really need that aren't provided by gh (scwm already has
> something like this, but that may be out of date... I'm sure that scwm
> has also implemented a lot of good abstractions for some of the
> missing stuff, so that should probably be the base for extending gh
> into something really useful). gh (excellent initials, those ;) should
> be a collection of useful abstractions that allow you to do what you
> want, without exposing you to exactly how it's done inside guile.

Our list is reasonably up-to-date and I just re-posted it.

Scwm tries to provide abstractions where they are missing, but often
doesn't for the low-level scm_ stuff since I've always just been waiting 
for the gh_ interface to improve (perhaps by renaming to gb_*? :-) :-) ).

Greg