Re: Google Summer of Code project concepts

[Chris Dale]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Brandon Invergo <address@hidden> wrote:

Check out nwm:
https://github.com/nizmic/nwm

It's written in XCB and uses Guile. I don't know how complete it is
yet, though. I haven't had much time to play around with it but it seems
to be generally working. It has a REPL and it uses Scheme functions to
manage window placement. I think it would be a better choice. Stumpwm is
huge and I'm pretty sure it has a lot of dependencies on Common Lisp features.

-brandon

I'm definitely interested in playing around with it. It might make an interesting project in itself to see how close to completion we could bring the project, though justifying a close marriage to Guix in that respect might be difficult. I'm interested in the idea of entire distribution where the tools at the user level are entirely (or primarily) configurable in a functional language, and Guix the distribution seems like a good starting point.

Cheers

Dale