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This is Guile iii.
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Guile iii is a first pass at boiling Guile down to the bare bones.
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Functionality that was previously included in the Guile kitchen sink
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releases, such as Tcl/Tk support, has been moved to add on packages,
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available separately.
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The purpose of splitting the sources up this way is to allow different
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packages to be maintained more or less independantly and to enable
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people with very specific needs to build up an instance of Guile
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containing exactly (and only) what they need.
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The Guile iii is a sort of software backplane. There are (as yet
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undocumented) conventions for structuring a release that "plugs into"
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this backplane and is built automaticly. For example, the "gtcl"
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distribution plugs into the backplane to provide various kinds of Tcl
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integration with Guile. That means that if you unpack "gtcl" into a
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Guile source tree and rebuild, Tcl support will be in the newly built
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version.
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A kitchen-sink (aka "suggested configuration") distribution of Guile,
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which includes many add-ons in the same tar file, may once again be
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made available in the near future, once the bugs are worked out of the
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backplane components.
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Here is how the back-plane works. First, unpack a guile-iii distribution:
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% tar -zxvf guile-iii.tar.gz
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[....]
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That will create a subdirectory called "guile-src".
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Then, *in the same place*, unpack a gtcltk distribution:
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% tar -zxvf gtcltk-0.tar.gz
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That will unpack more files into "guile-src".
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From there, use the usual configure-then-make procedure, as documented
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in the file INSTALL.
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