Re: [Chicken-users] Web generation + localization.

2008-03-06 Thread Peter Bex
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:17:05PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: So I gots me a web app to write. I also want to be prepped for other (spoken) languages, for similar reasons, and because I'm nerdy that way. There are libraries that will allow insertion of arbitrary Scheme into otherwise

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: regex and named subpatterns

2008-03-06 Thread felix winkelmann
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:40 PM, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Shinn scripsit: Chicken regexp's historically weren't tied to PCRE, and provided a fairly minimal feature set to accomodate all the backends equally. It now always uses PCRE, and you could get at the named

Re: [Chicken-users] web-scheme hart

2008-03-06 Thread Graham Fawcett
On 05 Mar 2008 23:29:19 -0300, Mario Domenech Goulart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:45:42 -0800 Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that web-scheme and hart do more-or-less the same thing. 2. What's the difference between web-scheme and hart? Do

Re: [Chicken-users] INI files in Scheme? (or something similar)

2008-03-06 Thread Kon Lovett
On Mar 3, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: Hi Hans, On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:22:11 -0500 Hans Nowak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a standard way to do INI files (or similar kinds of initialization files, ala .bashrc etc) in Scheme? For example, something like this:

Re: [Chicken-users] Revised Chapter 1 (reminder)

2008-03-06 Thread Vincent Manis
On 2008 Mar 06, at 01:01, felix winkelmann wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Vincent Manis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of weeks ago, I posted a draft of a new version of Chapter 1 of the manual, and asked for comments. There have been a few things added, and I think that the

[Chicken-users] Trashing of Egg documentation changes?

2008-03-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Eggs Unlimited 3, the top of the Web programming section looks like this (rendered, not source): Web programing chickenegg name=web-unity license=BSD author=sjamaan description=Web app unification framework for CGI/SCGI/FCGI/Spiffy webservers/ ajax Using xmlHttpRequest with the Spiffy

Re: [Chicken-users] readline blocks threads

2008-03-06 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Shawn Rutledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So they're using Unix sockets. It's already non-blocking, so F_SETFL doesn't change the behavior. But I guess I'm being stupid... readline (or the terminal? as you say) is blocking, not dbus. But it's good to know

Re: [Chicken-users] Web generation + localization.

2008-03-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:22:32AM +0100, Peter Bex wrote: I've spent a bit of time thinking about this (unfortunately, no time to code it up yet). At work we use Drupal, which simply requires you to wrap translatable strings with a function call to t(...). This is a solution that absolutely

Re: [Chicken-users] Revised Chapter 1 (reminder)

2008-03-06 Thread Vincent Manis
On 2008 Mar 06, at 09:08, Ashley Bone wrote: I'd suggest combining the paragrapsh on the MinGW/msys builds and just noting that makefiles exist for cmd.exe and msys. Done. John Cowan asked what the point of having both flavors. Back when I was doing Windows stuff, I normally built things

[Chicken-users] Anyone working on a BDD framework?

2008-03-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I'm a big fan of rspec/jbehave/etc's Given/When/Then framework for doing BDD specifications. Before I go off and write my own (read: before I hack testbase to do it), has anyone already got such a thing for Chicken I can use? -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17:

Re: [Chicken-users] google summer of code

2008-03-06 Thread Alex Shinn
Alaric == Alaric Snell-Pym [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alaric I'm also keen on a proper library/module system, Alaric though. I'd like to be able to use multiple Alaric macro systems in the same source file, for a Alaric start. So something where chicken itself has a Alaric

Re: [Chicken-users] srfi-29 egg problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't seem to work?

2008-03-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:46:49AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: You need a version of format that is more capable than the builtin one (which builds on [sf]printf). Install format-modular or format, and load that before srfi-29. Did that; now I get: Error: (vector-ref) out of range

Re: [Chicken-users] Revised Chapter 1 (reminder)

2008-03-06 Thread John Cowan
Vincent Manis scripsit: John Cowan asked what the point of having both flavors. Back when I was doing Windows stuff, I normally built things via bash scripts (just as I do today on OSX). I did use MinGW/MSys (curse their weird capitalization) for exactly that, once or twice. But most of my

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-setup broken

2008-03-06 Thread Ivan Raikov
Hi Jim, Can you try r9257? I have committed some fixes to chicken-setup that would hopefully solve your problems. -Ivan Jim Ursetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, chicken-setup seems to be broken (r9210). -- Install of egg located in current directory fails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$

Re: [Chicken-users] Revised Chapter 1 (reminder)

2008-03-06 Thread Vincent Manis
On 2008 Mar 06, at 21:22, John Cowan wrote: Quite so, which is why I'd suggest that the msys version be scrapped and that everyone on Windows use either the cygwin or the mingw version. Well, I actually don't care one way or the other. I'll change the documentation if a consensus

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-setup broken

2008-03-06 Thread Jim Ursetto
Ivan, Installation of downloaded eggs now works. However, installing an egg located in the current directory still fails, with a different path in the error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ ll objc.egg -rw-r--r-- 1 root jim 64708 Jan 14 01:00 objc.egg [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ sudo chicken-setup objc