[Chicken-users] pipeline.egg

2006-01-08 Thread Hans Bulfone
hi, i've just finished my first extension for chicken: pipeline.egg it allows running multiple subprocesses connected via pipes and scheme ports. for example to backup some files with tar and encrypt them with gpg, saving the stderr output of tar and gpg: (let ((passphrase foobar)

Re: [Chicken-users] test-infrastructure update (1.2)

2006-01-08 Thread Peter Keller
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:02:14AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: The tireless Kon Lovett has put some more work into the test-infrastructure egg (version 1.2). Get it at the usual place or via chicken-setup. I apologize for being such a bum about maintaining that egg What are the

Re: [Chicken-users] Win32 maintainer needed

2006-01-08 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Sergey Khorev wrote: I'd like to (excluding CMake stuff), but I'm very confused by your words about lots of work :) Support for Windows looks mature enough to not require daily hacking. Can you please explain what are those big problems? Also what will be modus operandi? E.g. shall maintainer

Re: [Chicken-users] Win32 maintainer needed

2006-01-08 Thread Bob McIsaac
Sergey Khorev wrote: I'd like to (excluding CMake stuff), but I'm very confused by your words about lots of work :) Support for Windows looks mature enough to not require daily hacking. Can you please explain what are those big problems? Also what will be modus operandi? E.g. shall maintainer

Re: [Chicken-users] Win32 maintainer needed

2006-01-08 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Bob McIsaac wrote: IMO, maintaining a universal build tool that works for both windows and unix is too complicated given the broken-minded idioms found on the windows platform.Mingw and Cygwin only extend this complexity. So it is better to have a separate windows build system. I am

Re: [Chicken-users] pipeline.egg

2006-01-08 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/8/06, Hans Bulfone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i've just finished my first extension for chicken: pipeline.egg it allows running multiple subprocesses connected via pipes and scheme ports. Very nice. I'll upload the egg in the next days. Thanks! i'd suggest adding procedures like

Re: [Chicken-users] Win32 maintainer needed

2006-01-08 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/8/06, Sergey Khorev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to (excluding CMake stuff), but I'm very confused by your words about lots of work :) Support for Windows looks mature enough to not require daily hacking. Can you please explain what are those big problems? Also what will be modus