[Chicken-users] Hackathon!

2008-02-11 Thread Peter Bex
Hello everyone, In light of the recent announcement by Felix and some people's concerns that the project may get into a bit of a slump with a lack of a single Benevolent Dictator, I decided that it would be a good idea to organize a Hackathon. This will be an excellent opportunity for the

Re: [Chicken-users] critical-section not in Chicken 3?

2008-02-11 Thread Elf
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Tobia Conforto wrote: snip A bold statement, but I kind of agree. Except maybe for when you seek to simulate many random, unpredictable, asynchronous processes, threads are just a quick hack. A hand-crafted, event-based solution is usually more efficient, easier to get

Re: [Chicken-users] i7on

2008-02-11 Thread John Cowan
Graham Fawcett scripsit: I hope it stands for 'innovation' and not 'intubation'... ;-) I thought it was iconization, but that's i8on. -- Why are well-meaning Westerners so concerned that John Cowan the opening of a Colonel Sanders in Beijing means [EMAIL PROTECTED] the end of Chinese

Re: [Chicken-users] i7on

2008-02-11 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
$ egrep -i ^i.{7}on$ /usr/share/dict/words | xargs echo imposition impression incubation indecision indication inhibition initiation injunction innovation inspection insulation intimation intonation intubation invitation invocation irrigation irritation I hope it stands for 'innovation' and

Re: [Chicken-users] i7on

2008-02-11 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Feb 11, 2008 8:26 AM, Alejandro Forero Cuervo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to show you a simple project I made using Chicken, i7on: http://i7on.com/ Neat! I can't help myself... $ egrep -i ^i.{7}on$ /usr/share/dict/words | xargs echo imposition impression incubation

Re: [Chicken-users] passing on of chicken maintainership

2008-02-11 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Feb 11, 2008 5:45 AM, felix winkelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear chicken users and hackers, I have decided to quit being chief maintainer of this project. Various developments have lead to this step which I don't take lightheartedly. Bravo, Felix, for making a good but difficult choice.

[Chicken-users] i7on

2008-02-11 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
I just wanted to show you a simple project I made using Chicken, i7on: http://i7on.com/ In it's current incarnation, it's 282 lines of Scheme (and 66 of JavaScript). I wrote a bit about it here: http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/launching-i7on Thanks! :-) Alejo.

Re: [Chicken-users] Hackathon!

2008-02-11 Thread Peter Bex
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:37:00PM +0100, Peter Bex wrote: I propose to hold the hackathon on the weekend of 22-23 February. Suggestions of different dates are welcome. Of course, the weekend is 23-24 February. However, anyone wanting to start on the 22nd is welcome to do so :) Cheers, Peter

Re: [Chicken-users] Hackathon!

2008-02-11 Thread Raymond Medeiros
is it possible to get a list of all eggs which do not currently have their documentation in the wiki? then we could start migrating the doc to the wiki. On Feb 11, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Peter Bex wrote: Hello everyone, In light of the recent announcement by Felix and some people's concerns

Re: [Chicken-users] readline Error: unbound variable: set-signal-handler!

2008-02-11 Thread Elf
felix fixed it already, it appears. :) -elf On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Elf wrote: my fault. it should include the posix egg. ill fix it straightaway. i added signal handling to readline so that control-c and control-d were handled properly. -elf On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andre Kuehne wrote:

Re: [Chicken-users] Hackathon!

2008-02-11 Thread Kon Lovett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 11, 2008, at 2:37 PM, Peter Bex wrote: Hello everyone, In light of the recent announcement by Felix and some people's concerns that the project may get into a bit of a slump with a lack of a single Benevolent Dictator, I decided that

Re: [Chicken-users] opengl egg does not appear to compile under Chicken 3.0.0

2008-02-11 Thread felix winkelmann
On Feb 7, 2008 9:24 AM, Ivan Raikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried compiling the opengl egg on a 64-bit Linux system, and I get the same error. Perhaps the foreign function interface makes some assumptions about type size that are not valid on 64-bit platforms? I checked in some changes

Re: [Chicken-users] readline Error: unbound variable: set-signal-handler!

2008-02-11 Thread Elf
my fault. it should include the posix egg. ill fix it straightaway. i added signal handling to readline so that control-c and control-d were handled properly. -elf On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andre Kuehne wrote: hey guys can someone help me with this readline problem? csi -n CHICKEN

Re: [Chicken-users] Hackathon!

2008-02-11 Thread felix winkelmann
On Feb 11, 2008 11:37 PM, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I propose to hold the hackathon on the weekend of 22-23 February. Suggestions of different dates are welcome. A wiki page has been created at http://chicken.wiki.br/Hackathon1 with some initial suggestions of things to work on.

Re: [Chicken-users] Hackathon!

2008-02-11 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
Oooh, sounds fun! I'll see if I can make it... ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/?author=4 ___ Chicken-users mailing list

Re: [Chicken-users] Hackathon!

2008-02-11 Thread Graham Fawcett
On Feb 11, 2008 5:37 PM, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, In light of the recent announcement by Felix and some people's concerns that the project may get into a bit of a slump with a lack of a single Benevolent Dictator, I decided that it would be a good idea to organize a

[Chicken-users] passing on of chicken maintainership

2008-02-11 Thread felix winkelmann
Dear chicken users and hackers, I have decided to quit being chief maintainer of this project. Various developments have lead to this step which I don't take lightheartedly. This project takes too much of my time. I know that I'm basically responsible for this myself, but maintaining the