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Jim Blandy writes: > > A renaming system would allow someone to resolve conflicts on their > individual machine, but I don't see how this could support the "untar; > configure; make install" model or the RedHat/Debian package model. > How will a module find the other modules it needs, without human > intervention? > Are configure scripts unable to do that? Sometimes they seam to be able to check if certain shared libs contain certain commands, and the like. > I sympathize with your crystal/emulsifier analogy, but I don't think > what we're proposing will affect the way anyone codes, or even the way > they organize their code. We're just setting aside a portion of the > namespace that we want to try to keep neat. > > Maybe I don't understand your objection... > Some different, but related subject is giving guile apps their own guile load path. M. Stachowiak already suggested something similar. Is that easy to realize with the existing possibilities of guile? Klaus Schilling