[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Savannah] epsilon want to be a GNU package

[Luca Saiu]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Free Software Foundation wrote:

> address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> To make your program into official GNU software
> (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#GNUsoftware), you will
> first need to agree to follow GNU policies.
  [...]

  Ok, I am pretty sure to agree on everything about GNU policies --I
have read nearly everything on the 'philosophy' section of your site--
however I am going to read again the articles you have pointed, paying
particular attenction.
  Just a question: 'procedurally' speaking, how can I formally agree? By
replying to your e-mail? I didn't understand this.

> Also, I believe that the Guile project is working on something quite
> similar.  I suggest you talk with them about what you are doing and seek
> their input.

  Mmm. My language is quite far from Scheme since, for example, it's
strongly typed, and purely functinal, Scheme is not. Syntax is less
important, but the difference shows the distance between two views: my
conception is more "rigid" and less "expressive", but also less
dynamic (dangerous), more oriented to clear software engineering;
for example I plan to implement exception-handling, something which Scheme
lacks. But now I'm speaking too much before making, and this is not 
the place for philosophy. Sorry.
  I sincerely appreciate the Guile project and sometimes use Guile, but
I think epsilon should evolve into something radically different from it.

  Regards,

--
Luca Saiu