Re: [Chicken-users] Problems with darcs repo?

2006-03-28 Thread Sven . Hartrumpf
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:43:14 -0600, rsheridan6 wrote: > For the last month or so, "darcs pull"ing from the Chicken repository has > told me that there are no updates. Same here. But: I just ran "darcs pull" again and now darcs offered _18_ patches. Sven pgplr3H9ReO5V.pgp Description: PGP signatu

[Chicken-users] Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

2006-03-28 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
So, I'm contemplating bootstrapping. If you didn't have a chicken compiler already, how would you bootstrap? Where is the "primal" chicken? There's something I find deeply odd about the circularity of tarballs and darcs. I'd rather derive chicken from first principles. On a more pragmatic

[Chicken-users] Re: Advantages of CHICKEN over Gambit-C

2006-03-28 Thread Matthias Heiler
Matthew David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gambit has the immediately obvious advantages of the numeric tower and a > nice interpreter with edit-line abilities (like "read-line"), Concerning readline, I like to call chicken using rlwrap. This little tool gives you readline's capabilitie

Re: [Chicken-users] Problems with darcs repo?

2006-03-28 Thread felix winkelmann
On 3/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:43:14 -0600, rsheridan6 wrote: > > > For the last month or so, "darcs pull"ing from the Chicken repository has > > told me that there are no updates. > > Same here. > But: I just ran "darcs pull" again and now darcs off

Re: [Chicken-users] fun porting to irix 6.5.21m

2006-03-28 Thread felix winkelmann
On 3/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The compile halted on posix.c at line 447. IRIX does not have the > ltm->tm_zone field, but rather uses the tmzone[1] and tmzone[0] fields > available for __CYGWIN__ macro for conditional macro. > again in uposix.c the same code pattern e

Re: [Chicken-users] Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

2006-03-28 Thread John Cowan
Brandon J. Van Every scripsit: > So, I'm contemplating bootstrapping. If you didn't have a chicken > compiler already, how would you bootstrap? You wouldn't, but that almost certainly is not what happened. Felix probably wrote an early version of chicken and ran it on some other Scheme -- it

Re: [Chicken-users] Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

2006-03-28 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
John Cowan wrote: Brandon J. Van Every scripsit: So, I'm contemplating bootstrapping. If you didn't have a chicken compiler already, how would you bootstrap? You wouldn't, but that almost certainly is not what happened. Felix probably wrote an early version of chic

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Advantages of CHICKEN over Gambit-C

2006-03-28 Thread Matthew David Parker
> Concerning readline, I like to call chicken using rlwrap. This little > tool gives you readline's capabilities without forcing a license on > you. Oh that's a pretty nice utility there, I just tried it. It still uses the GNU readline library, but at least it's a completely separate program i