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[ron <macroron AT gmail.com>]

Hello,

That is an excellent idea. 

I would like to use Dylan as a scripting language in place of bash scripts used heavily in the Source Mage Linux distro. 

Dylan could be used as a way for the experienced Source Mage Linux bash scripter to communicate the meaning of the bash scripts and help translate the bash scripts into Dylan scripts. 

I believe translating  the Source Mage Linux bash script system into Dylan scripts would open Source Mage Linux to more people and make it easier to understand and use. 

I am not a programmer but understand the Dylan programming language the best. 

I learned from books. 

I would need help installing it on Linux and be comfortable using, programming and scripting with Dylan before I approach the Magi with my proposal.

Any help would be appreciated very much.

Happy Holidays,

-Ron macroron@gmail



On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Mehul N. Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hopefully this is the right place to ask this.
>
> I am running Debian/testing on an x86 system and would like to run Dylan on it.
>  My options seems to be OpenDylan or Gwydion.  I went with Gwydion because I


> had used it at one point in time (years ago when I used to work at Harlequin
> and was trying this out on my system at home).
>
> Unfortunately, it seems that there is no Gwydion for Debian available anymore.


> At least not for Debian/testing (aka lenny).
>
> I downloaded the source code via svn, but when running autogen.sh (I assume
> that is what I need to run after checking out the source), it complains that


> there is no d2c and so I can't build gwydion without it.
>
> My goal is to try and learn Dylan and use it for scripting.  Maybe replace all
> those files with #!/usr/bin/perl in them with #!/usr/bin/dylan.  What is the


> way to invoke Dylan if using it for scripting ?  Apparently I can't do that
> with OpenDylan.
>
>
> If this is the wrong mailing list, point me to the correct one.
>
> cheers,


>
>     mehul
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