Guile Projects

any people use Guile in their projects (and are kind enough to tell us about it). Maybe you can, too!

This is the unabridged list of projects that use, modify and export Guile. Those entries that are acceptably Free according to the GNU Project are also listed on the official Guile pages.

The Wurlds

These are the ASCII worlds generated (using Guile) to satisfy the whimsy of the guile projects list maintainer.

Database Conversion

This is a snapshot of some code (and its output) we are using to move the database implementation from a list of alists into a more manageable PostgreSQL database. Note that this is a backend change only; the list entry maintenance protocol will remain essentially intact.

Here's the overall task table, updated 2001/08/14 19:19:41. (We omit the planning/management task, which is never finished, interstitial anyway, and hardly glorious. This isn't to say it's not important!) Terms: "pgdb" means PostgreSQL database, "adb" means alist-database.

Status Task
2000-07-21 install locally: PostgreSQL and guile-pg
2001-01-21 characterize adb (and publish stats)

adb stats
url-probe stats

2001-01-22 write adb consistency checks

no bogus fields
name has no embedded newline

2001-01-22 write fix-ups for failed consistency checks
2001-01-30 integrate characterization/checks/fixups into guile-projects
2001-01-30 run fixups on live adb (and maintain likewise)
2001-03-07 write code to define/create/query pgdb from schemey description
2001-03-08 integrate db-def/create/query code into ttn-pers-scheme
2001-03-23 write/integrate/run more adb characterizations/fixups

entry representation by field
suggested pgdb entry representation by field
no embedded newlines in url and email markup
no embedded newlines in fields: name gnu category location maintainer status keywords requires mailing-list authors password

2001-04-09
[2001-04-11] generate pgdb table design based on adb characterization [and review!]

field names
data types
constraints [punt for now]
triggers [punt]
documentation (comments)
ask for pgdb table design review
ongoing snarf conversion code into ttn-pers-scheme and/or GUMM (actually, we've been snarfing various useful bits as we go along
deprecated add runtime backend selection to guile-projects maintenance code (actually, this is more pain than it's worth -- we will implement once and make a full jump)
2001-05-25 convert locally (see log!)
todo rewrite guile-projects maintenance code to use pgdb

canonical IR
reading db
writing db

todo test guile-projects maintenance code w/ new backend
todo install things on suitable host
todo run consistency checks on installed postgres db
deprecated test for some time, maintaining both backends in sync
todo go live
todo layer services

A random thought: it would be nice to have a "guile-watch" bot that monitors freshmeat, sourceforge, and other places, and automatically submits new or modified entries (following protocol) to the guile project list reflecting changes elsewhere.