Re: [Chicken-users] RedHat and Debian packages

2007-01-15 Thread Pupeno
I think the problem is thinking about Linux as an OS, it is just a kernel. If we considered RedHat as different to Debian, as FreeBSD is to Plan 9, then we'd be delighted of how compatible they are and how easy it is to port from one to the other. The same thing happens with Schemes, one could a

Re: [Chicken-users] String compression?

2007-01-15 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 1/14/07, Alejandro Forero Cuervo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have code for compressing strings using zlib, lzo or some > other common llibrary/algorithm? Well, a long time ago I wrote some code to compress/decompress with zlib algorithms: http://anonymous:@freaks-unidos.net/azul-

Re: [Chicken-users] Wierd behaviour of process.

2007-01-15 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 1/14/07, Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That made me think that doing a "wait" on the process *is* behaviour I want, and I should do that. However, process-wait throws an error if the process has already exited, and I can't seem to trap it. I tried: (condition-case (process-wait

Re: [Chicken-users] Wierd behaviour of process.

2007-01-15 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/15/07, Graham Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can't just drop this in an egg, though; the definintion of ##sys#process-wait is not public, and your compile will fail. Add it to posixuinx.scm in your Chicken source tree, and then rebuild and reinstall Chicken. That's a bit extreme, I

Re: Re : [Chicken-users] thread-sleep! for less than a second

2007-01-15 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/13/07, Daishi Kato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, That was something that I could not notice either at first. Another issue for me is that I want to declare fixnum when all other procedures are fixnum arithmetic. So, I wished thread-sleep-millis! Any workaround for this? Maybe making a tiny

Re: [Chicken-users] Wierd behaviour of process.

2007-01-15 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 1/15/07, felix winkelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/15/07, Graham Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can't just drop this in an egg, though; the definintion of > ##sys#process-wait is not public, and your compile will fail. Add it > to posixuinx.scm in your Chicken source tree, a

Re: [Chicken-users] Wierd behaviour of process.

2007-01-15 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/15/07, Graham Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #;2> (my-process-wait 2) Error: unbound variable: ##sys#process-wait Oh, that was exposed recently, for the osprocess egg. I forgot about that. cheers, felix ___ Chicken-users mailing list Ch

[Chicken-users] trac instance running - public rejoices - Arto for president!

2007-01-15 Thread felix winkelmann
Hi, folks! Arto has set up the bug tracker now. Everybody with an SVN account can now add and edit tickets at: http://trac.callcc.org Note: before you can assign tickets to yourself (something that you are more than eager to do, I hope! ;-) you must go to "Settings" and register a name. The ti

[Chicken-users] Re: trac instance running - public rejoices - Arto for president!

2007-01-15 Thread felix winkelmann
BTW, it's fine to create tickets regarding features you'd like to see, or eggs that you think would be nice to have. That way it might be easier to coordinate efforts working into a specific direction and avoiding double-work. cheers, felix ___ Chick

Re: [Chicken-users] trac instance running - public rejoices - Arto for president!

2007-01-15 Thread Peter Bex
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:41:29PM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: > Hi, folks! > > Arto has set up the bug tracker now. Everybody with an SVN account > can now add and edit tickets at: > > http://trac.callcc.org Hurray! All hail Arto! :) Regards, Peter -- http://sjamaan.ath.cx -- "The process

[Chicken-users] Anonymous trac access

2007-01-15 Thread felix winkelmann
Arto just informed me that anonymous access to trac.callcc.org has now been enabled, so everybody (even without an svn account) can now enter tickets. cheers, felix ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailm

Fwd: Re : [Chicken-users] thread-sleep! for less than a second

2007-01-15 Thread Daishi Kato
This is supposed to go the chicken ML. -- Forwarded message -- From: Daishi Kato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 16, 2007 10:43 AM Subject: Re: Re : [Chicken-users] thread-sleep! for less than a second To: felix winkelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks a lot! BTW, timeout is also us

[Chicken-users] delete-file* not working as advertised.

2007-01-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell
This code: (if (file-exists? file) (delete-file* file)) where file is a symbolic link is giving me: Error: (delete-file) can not delete file - Permission denied: "ltest" Now, this system is wierd in that unlink is re-mapped, but I thought the documentation for delete-file* was pretty cl

Re: [Chicken-users] delete-file* not working as advertised.

2007-01-15 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 1/15/07, Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This code: (if (file-exists? file) (delete-file* file)) where file is a symbolic link is giving me: Error: (delete-file) can not delete file - Permission denied: "ltest" Now, this system is wierd in that unlink is re-mapped, but

Re: Re : [Chicken-users] thread-sleep! for less than a second

2007-01-15 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/16/07, Daishi Kato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, timeout is also used for thread-join!, mutex-lock! and mutex-unlock! in srfi-18. It'd be more consistent to have */ms procedures for these above. Or, since timeout for these procedures including thread-sleep! can be a time object, introduci

Re: Re : [Chicken-users] thread-sleep! for less than a second

2007-01-15 Thread Daishi Kato
On 1/16/07, felix winkelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/16/07, Daishi Kato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW, timeout is also used for thread-join!, mutex-lock! and > mutex-unlock! in srfi-18. > It'd be more consistent to have */ms procedures for these above. > Or, since timeout for these p