Re: [Chicken-users] The eggs index needs release dates displayed

2018-02-21 Thread John Gabriele
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018, at 4:36 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: > Hi John, > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:09:28 -0500 John Gabriele > wrote: > > > How about instead adding a link to its online repo (at github, gitlab, > > bitbucket, ...)? Is there a way to add those links to

Re: [Chicken-users] The eggs index needs release dates displayed

2018-02-21 Thread Evan Hanson
Hi John, On 2018-02-21 16:09, John Gabriele wrote: > How about instead adding a link to its online repo (at github, gitlab, > bitbucket, ...)? Is there a way to add those links to the eggs index > page? That would be an excellent improvement. Authors are encouraged to link to sources on the

Re: [Chicken-users] The eggs index needs release dates displayed

2018-02-21 Thread John Cowan
I think that would be a mistake for the reason you give: it's often the case that an egg hasn't been updated in a long while because it's complete and nobody has found any bugs in it. Lisp/Scheme code tends to be extremely durable: McCarthy's theorem prover from 1958 is still runnable with only a

[Chicken-users] The eggs index needs release dates displayed

2018-02-21 Thread John Gabriele
Hi all, Haven't played around with scheme in a while, but recently was motivated to take a peek at what eggs were currently available. I noticed at the [egg index](http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html) that although there is much useful info provided (such as description,

Re: [Chicken-users] The eggs index needs release dates displayed

2018-02-21 Thread John Gabriele
How about instead adding a link to its online repo (at github, gitlab, bitbucket, ...)? Is there a way to add those links to the eggs index page? That would be an excellent improvement. When I look at a project's online repo, seeing recent commits, issues, available docs, number of

Re: [Chicken-users] The eggs index needs release dates displayed

2018-02-21 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi John, On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:09:28 -0500 John Gabriele wrote: > How about instead adding a link to its online repo (at github, gitlab, > bitbucket, ...)? Is there a way to add those links to the eggs index > page? That would be an excellent improvement. When I look at