Re: small patch to get scsh running

> - I see you took the 0.6 scsh packages, which have all the scsh code in
>  one huge structure.  Did you look at the trunk on SourceForge, where
>  it's broken up in multiple structures?

No, I didn't even think of looking in that repo honestly. Wish I had
though, that would've been useful and so much easier to understand.
Gonna try to integrate that change (and any other useful ones I can
find in there) with what I have now.

> - What are your thoughts on dealing with the threads-narrowing issue?

I've been avoiding threading issues altogether honestly. I just wanted
to get the code to a point where it could run on a vanilla s48 vm.
And, I've been too busy lately to go much further.

Thinking about it now though, it seems like narrowing is the right way
to go, but I don't want to have to fork s48 to do it. The
implementation in 0.6 required adding a new event  type and maybe some
other things I wouldn't be able to do with just the threads-internal
package.

> - What are your thoughs on implementing `select' & friends?

I haven't thought about it much yet. I'd like to do that if they
aren't already there (isn't select implemented?), especially epoll to
write something like tornado <http://tornadoweb.org> in scsh. I've
been focusing on fixing breakage though, which there's still a lot of.

> - I saw this in thread-fluid.scm:
>
> ;;; because I'd like to have scsh stop using thread-fluids altogether if I can
> ;;; later.
>
>  I'd be curious about your thoughts on this.  (Of course, the obvious
>  way to get rid of them is to clean up the scsh API - an option that
>  wasn't available to us at the time.)

That file was written early on, before I spoke to you about them. I'm
going to reevaluate that once I get to seriously thinking about how to
handle threads of course.

> Also, you might want to send your announcement to the scsh mailing list
> as well ...

Yes, someone's suggested that. I've been reluctant though, since it's
still pretty broken. At this point though, since I can't devote much
time to it for now, and the instructions for setting it up are a bit
simpler with that patch in, I'll announce it soon.

-Roderic