Re: [Chicken-users] read / write floats

2007-08-26 Thread Ivan Raikov
In that case, perhaps a note about using eggs with different but compatible licenses should be included in the FAQ, or along with the main Chicken license. It's just that I had never seen this issue raised before -- and certainly there are better ways to raise it. Let us shake hands and move

Re: [Chicken-users] read / write floats

2007-08-26 Thread Gábor Balázs
Licence is not a problem for me yet, because this software is not for commercial use. I just do not like side effects when they should not happen, even if they are not crucial at the moment. The worst thing when they become crucial later. I don't see the benefit of this standard deviation of

Re: [Chicken-users] syntax-case and #!rest, second attempt

2007-08-26 Thread mark
Thanks, Zbigniew. I indeed figured out the renaming of #!rest before Chicken sees it. But I didn't think of the hack and I'll give it a try soon. However, it is not a nice solution and my guess would be that the syntax-case egg should have a build in exception for the #!key and #!rest keywords, so

Re: [Chicken-users] read / write floats

2007-08-26 Thread Thomas Christian Chust
Gábor Balázs wrote: [...] I don't see the benefit of this standard deviation of chicken scheme. If one says it is about performance, I can say scheme's text based read/write is far from the performance what binary I/O can provide. The real benefit of read/write is simplicity and portability.

[Chicken-users] Re: testbase use

2007-08-26 Thread Kon Lovett
On Aug 25, 2007, at 11:16 PM, Ivan Raikov wrote: nip Let us shake hands and move on, indeed -- I am in the process of changing my unit tests from using the LPGL-ed testeez egg to using the BSD-ed testbase egg. While I think the documentation for 'testbase' is comprehensive it is

Re: [Chicken-users] syntax-case and #!rest, second attempt

2007-08-26 Thread Kon Lovett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 26, 2007, at 7:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Zbigniew. I indeed figured out the renaming of #!rest before Chicken sees it. But I didn't think of the hack and I'll give it a try soon. However, it is not a nice solution and my guess

Re: [Chicken-users] read / write floats

2007-08-26 Thread Kon Lovett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Aug 26, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Gábor Balázs wrote: Licence is not a problem for me yet, because this software is not for commercial use. I just do not like side effects when they should not happen, even if they are not crucial at the moment. The

Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in chicken-2.636

2007-08-26 Thread Zbigniew
Hi there. There was a change made to the blob-handling code in SVN r5529 (2007-08-19) which caused this error. You cannot build 5529 or later unless you already have a pretty recent compiler installed for the bootstrap phase. I don't know exactly how recent yet, but it's definitely sometime