Re: Can the Guile library be reentrant

[Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu>]

Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com> writes:

> > In particular, it looks as though KIllustrator (a drawing program for
> > KDE) is considering using SIOD instead of guile (perhaps they don't know 
> > about guile) as a scripting language for their application.
> 
> Well, you see Gnome is using Guile for some stuff, which means that
> obviously KDE can't use Guile  ...
> 
> Serously, there are some major political differences between the
> KDE camp, and the Gnome camp.  Aligned with the latter camp is
> Guile, FSF, Red Hat, Debian, and all other right-thinking people ...
> 
> Even though there are well-meaning, sincere, and competent people
> on both sides, there are philosophical and personality issues (plus
> a year or more of bitter arguments) that complicate any co-operation
> between the two camps.  Maybe in a year, things will have calmed
> down enough ...

Or if some guile guru just took it upon him/herself to embed guile in
KIllustrator, perhaps they wouldn't mind so much.  Of course, finding
the guile guru willing to help the KDE team might be difficult if there
are such political differences separating the groups.

The state of affairs sure seems unfortunate.  It's pretty painful to see 
two groups developing the same set of free applications w/o any code
sharing.  Ugh.

Greg