[r6rs-discuss] voting process

[Göran Weinholt]

Abdulaziz Ghuloum <aghuloum at cs.indiana.edu> writes:

> On Nov 3, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Thomas Lord wrote:
>
>> Well, it got built.  They didn't come.
>
> Tom,
>
> If R6RS was written by God, delivered by a prophet, accompanied by
> the archangels, it wouldn't have gained the acceptance you expected
> within one year.  Honestly, it is too early to announce the death
> of Scheme based on some unmet unrealistic expectations.  Patience!

I have written some R6RS libraries (e.g., an x86 disassembler) that I
want to put somewhere where people can find them. But when a library
has been written it's almost never a big deal, and I for one am too
modest to announce it on somewhere like c.l.scheme. A central
repository for R6RS compatible libraries, like Perl's CPAN, would help
increase adoption.

If there also was a standard distribution of useful libraries, like
the standard modules for Python, that would help increase adoption
too. The administrator of the central library repository would be in a
good position to create such a distribution.

I'm hoping I won't have to create all this infrastructure myself. But
I will contribute libraries if someone builds it.

Regards,

-- 
Göran Weinholt <goran at weinholt.se>