Re: guile-picture-language

[Aleix Conchillo Flaqué]

For the record, guile-language-picture runs great on macOS, I just had to
package guile-rsvg. The only thing missing would be a
guile-picture-language tarball, unfortunately Homebrew needs a file to
download.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 3:55 PM Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <aconchillo@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ricardo,
>
> After seeing Blake's talk I remembered about guile-picture-language, which
> looks awesome. I'd like to play with it (and add it to Homebrew Guile) but
> unfortunately there's no release tarball as far as I know. For those poor
> people not using Guix, would it be possible to cut a release with a tarball?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Aleix
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 2:21 AM Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Brett,
>>
>> > I just wanted to publicly say that your picture-language module has
>> > already made for a great teaching tool. For people who have been
>> > otherwise pensive about trying Scheme (and Guile particular), I have
>> > been able to convince people to try the picture language module and they
>> > have become fast to understand many basic guile concepts with ease.
>>
>> That’s great!  Thank you for giving it a try.
>>
>> I started work on what I called “Guile Studio”, a distribution of Emacs
>> that comes with Geiser, CUA-mode, flycheck for Guile, relevant tool bar
>> icons, and the picture language, among other things, to make it easier
>> for people to get started with Guile without having to first learn
>> Emacs.
>>
>> You can find it here:
>>
>>     https://git.elephly.net/software/guile-studio.git
>>
>> To install it try this:
>>
>>     git clone https://git.elephly.net/software/guile-studio.git
>>     cd guile-studio
>>     guix package -L guix -i guile-studio
>>
>> Run “guile-studio” to start it.
>>
>> I would appreciate contributions!
>>
>> --
>> Ricardo
>>
>>
>>