Re: [Chicken-users] Porting modules to Chicken from other Schemes?

2011-09-09 Thread Ivan Raikov
Hello, It depends on whether the module uses features specific to the other Scheme implementation. I find that the biggest impediments to porting to Chicken are non-hygienic macros, object oriented systems (often implemented as non-hygienic macros :-), and elaborate FFI constructs, which unfor

Re: [Chicken-users] Porting modules to Chicken from other Schemes?

2011-09-09 Thread John Cowan
John Gabriele scripsit: > Are there any organized efforts to gather free software modules from > elsewhere, port them to Chicken, and add them to the egg repository > (similar to how, say, Debian packages software into .deb packages)? Organized, no. But if you look at the egg index, you'll see t

[Chicken-users] Porting modules to Chicken from other Schemes?

2011-09-09 Thread John Gabriele
Hi, How much work is generally required to port modules from other Schemes to Chicken? Are there any organized efforts to gather free software modules from elsewhere, port them to Chicken, and add them to the egg repository (similar to how, say, Debian packages software into .deb packages)? Than

Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] SRFI-99 record types for CHICKEN

2011-09-09 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/08/2011 06:37 PM, Thomas Chust wrote: > Hello, > > presently it's only in the Fossil repository, but I will link it into the > egg repository as soon as it has been tested and bugfixed a little more ;-) Tell me how you get on. I plan to move my