Re: [PATCH] Allow printing of Guile values

Jim Blandy
2007-07-20T19:37:20Z

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
>> Definitely. Part of the rationale for deleting it was, "Oh, if
>> someone shows up to keep it alive, we've still got it in CVS." I'll
>> be happy to review changes. The key is that someone make themselves
>> available to keep it working.
>
> Great.
>
>> A debugger should be able to inspect the state of programs in serious
>> disarray, so there's an argument against relying too much on invoking
>> functions in Guile. Certainly, though, the best code would draw a
>> clear distinction between scm-lang.c and scm-lang-guile.c.
>
> Agreed. However, to be very pragmatic, we may be better off with
> minimal support that works and doesn't add a significant maintenance
> burden. For instance, while valuable, interpretation of Guile values on
> the GDB side requires a significant amount of code that must be kept in
> sync with Guile.
>
> How would you like to proceed: would you like to reinstall the deleted
> files and patch against them, or would you prefer that we somehow start
> anew?

Let's take the files you've got now and just put them in.