Re: Ideas for Summer of Code 2017

[Ludovic Courtès]

Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> skribis:

> One interesting change from when this was defined last year and this
> year is that the "extensible event loop" one has some candidates to pick
> from, via guile a-sync, fibers, and 8sync.
>
> However using any of those would require Shepherd being pinned to Guile
> 2.2.  Maybe not a problem; it could be a branch, and Guile 2.2 stable
> looks not so far away.

Yes, I think it’d be reasonable to have Shepherd rely on 2.2.

In fact, we should start moving all of our infrastructure to 2.2.  There
are still a couple of issues to be addressed I think, but now’s the time
to explore.

Ludo’.