Re: [Chicken-users] Scheme is dead, long live Scheme

2007-08-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
of the language in the same way. Coming from a Schemer? Pot. Kettle. Black. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Fwd: Queinnec's Lisp in Small Pieces for CAN$3.95+shipping

2007-08-10 Thread Brandon Van Every
! Who would have thought! I'd SemperSectum you if I believed you, for giving the plot away. Fortunately I know you're the victim of the Lucas Cinaema curse! Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http

Re: [Chicken-users] Fwd: Queinnec's Lisp in Small Pieces for CAN$3.95+shipping

2007-08-10 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 8/10/07, Arto Bendiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/10/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW that site is showing LiSP for $CA 76.86, not exactly a deal. It's up to CDN$ 94.40, now, with that being a price increase of 90.45 since yesterday when it was still selling

Re: [Chicken-users] Fwd: Queinnec's Lisp in Small Pieces for CAN$3.95+shipping

2007-08-09 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 8/9/07, Alex Queiroz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, On 8/9/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LiSP is now their #1 bestseller, bigger even than Harry Potter! That's a joke, right? How would I compare sales numbers of Amazon books? I'm reading the 7th Harry Potter

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken on the PS3

2007-07-24 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 7/24/07, Peter Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: config.guess seems to screw that up a bit, but it didn't seem to affect the compilation and/or function of Chicken. Does the CMake build work? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing

[Chicken-users] does adding numbers stop spam?

2007-07-20 Thread Brandon Van Every
to it. Pretty bad idea I think, so I'm wondering if the adding numbers trick solved the spam problem. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] operations

2007-07-16 Thread Brandon Van Every
history are doomed to repeat it? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

[Chicken-users] libffi and cmake on gnu/linux again

2007-07-13 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 7/13/07, felix winkelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Try passing -DWITHOUT_LIBFFI=TRUE to ccmake (or cmake). I don't know why this fails. It fails on MinGW also, but I assumed that was because it wasn't supported on MinGW. Is it supposed to work? Cheers, Brandon Van Every

[Chicken-users] stack direction test

2007-07-13 Thread Brandon Van Every
. This functionality is trivial and should always be working, very strange if it is not. Please give platform, compiler, make VERBOSE=1 output, etc. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman

Re: [Chicken-users] stack direction test

2007-07-13 Thread Brandon Van Every
I'm going to guess you have a bad build environment. Please give your PATH and the output of make --version. I'll see if I can reproduce on my own real XP SP2 box. Cheers, Brandon On 7/13/07, Kon Lovett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 13, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Brandon Van Every wrote: On 7

Re: [Chicken-users] stack direction test

2007-07-13 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 7/13/07, Kon Lovett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 13, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Brandon Van Every wrote: I'm going to guess you have a bad build environment. Please give your PATH and the output of make --version. I'll see if I can reproduce on my own real XP SP2 box. Thank you for your

[Chicken-users] FLTK and CEGUI

2007-07-10 Thread Brandon Van Every
developer or cares about such capabilities. But I thought I would mention it since it's something I might be interested in. It deserves consideration for those who think an OpenGL based GUI is the way to go. Also the license is better: CEGUI is MIT, FLTK is LGPL. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

[Chicken-users] The Programmer Hierarchy

2007-07-08 Thread Brandon Van Every
http://lukewelling.com/2006/08/03/java-programmers-are-the-erotic-furries-of-programming/ ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

[Chicken-users] wxWidgets

2007-07-05 Thread Brandon Van Every
Ok, so, like, refresh my memory why people object to wxWidgets. Because, you know, like, it seems a pretty obvious choice for cross-platform GUI work. http://www.wxwidgets.org Is this about C++? Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing

[Chicken-users] Fwd: [CMake] Deb and RPM package generation modules

2007-07-04 Thread Brandon Van Every
New post on the CMake list, if someone wants to pursue it on Linux. -- Forwarded message -- From: Mehdi Rabah [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 4, 2007 11:21 AM Subject: [CMake] Deb and RPM package generation modules To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, In case someone is interested

Re: [Chicken-users] Automated builds

2007-06-28 Thread Brandon Van Every
note that CMake / CTest / Dart dashboard already has all these sorts of reporting capabilities in a lovely web format. Here's an example: http://www.vtk.org/Testing/Dashboard/20070628-0300-Nightly/Dashboard.html Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken

Re: [Chicken-users] install sdl.egg with mingw32?

2007-06-26 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 6/26/07, Jong-Hyouk Yun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this fine link mingw libraries with vc6 libraries together into same executable image? Not sure. I'd Google about the issue if I were you. I do know that the different compilers have different mangling conventions. Cheers, Brandon Van

Re: [Chicken-users] install sdl.egg with mingw32?

2007-06-25 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 6/25/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Third. I can't remember if I got it working or not. I remember doing it under MSYS, because compiling SDL under straight MinGW wasn't possible and I didn't know if I could just use MSVC binaries. Anyways it was a PITA because of all

Re: [Chicken-users] installing chicken using microsoft's .NET (2005)

2007-06-10 Thread Brandon Van Every
in Trac's Settings menu, as Trac assumes that anonymous contributions are spam. Also, that's how you'll know if the status of the bug changes. MinGW, Cygwin, and VS .NET 2003 are working fine, if you're willing to use those. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken and stalin

2007-06-05 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 6/4/07, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every scripsit: Speed, to the exclusion of all other considerations, is not the real world. I can understand compiling portable Scheme code under any 2 different compilers. I cannot fathom trying to get such code to interoperate

[Chicken-users] chicken and stalin

2007-06-05 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 6/5/07, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every scripsit: This is infrastructurally lame. Anyone who is that enamored with speed deserves what they get. Efforts would be better spent actually creating a community around Stalin and showing some leadership addressing its

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken and stalin

2007-06-04 Thread Brandon Van Every
, extensions repository, mailing list, and user community? The question isn't how you would use Stalin with Chicken, but whether anyone uses Stalin at all. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org

Re: [Chicken-users] Choosing chicken

2007-06-02 Thread Brandon Van Every
don't. That's a big advantage to most people. Once upon a time, PLT's performance wasn't as good as Chicken's. I don't know about now. Chicken has some inherent ability to talk to C++. As far as I know, PLT doesn't. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

[Chicken-users] Re: Choosing chicken

2007-06-02 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 6/2/07, Jens Axel Søgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I am not on the Chicken mailing list, so I am responding directly - feel free to any response to the mailing list] Brandon Van Every wrote: On 6/2/07, Alex Queiroz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In summary: - Windows support

[Chicken-users] Re: Choosing chicken

2007-06-02 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 6/2/07, Jens Axel Søgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every skrev: Chicken has some inherent ability to talk to C++. As far as I know, PLT doesn't. Are you thinking ABI here? No, I'm saying Chicken understands some C++ constructs. That's one of the reasons I went

Re: [Chicken-users] calling all Vista users

2007-05-24 Thread Brandon Van Every
/07, Ian Oversby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, they work, although I suppose it is possible that it is choosing some other version from a different path. Let me try to install it again at some point (hopefully this week) and get back to you. Cheers, Ian On 19/05/07, Brandon Van Every

Re: [Chicken-users] A Proposal for Texinfo Reference Manual, was: Re: Chicken manual in Texinfo format

2007-05-21 Thread Brandon Van Every
have great documentation, but they don't. (2) Because Texinfo isn't relevant to all developers. The reality is there's an Emacs crowd, a Visual Studio crowd, an Eclipse crowd, and various other crowds. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format

2007-05-18 Thread Brandon Van Every
. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

[Chicken-users] is Mac OS X build working in Darcs?

2007-05-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
Can someone please verify that the Mac OS X build in Darcs head is working properly? I don't have a Mac to test it on. Please also do a make install, make uninstall, make install. There should be no static libraries or executables after that. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

[Chicken-users] Re: is CMake Mac OS X build working in Darcs?

2007-05-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/17/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please verify that the Mac OS X build in Darcs head is working properly? I don't have a Mac to test it on. Please also do a make install, make uninstall, make install. There should be no static libraries or executables after

[Chicken-users] calling all Vista users

2007-05-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
are working fine for me. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/17/07, Graham Fawcett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/16/07, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every scripsit: Having the 2nd invocation of make install repeat the build from scratch is not that important a bug, and all evidence says it's a Linux specific bug. I'd

Re: [Chicken-users] is Mac OS X build working in Darcs?

2007-05-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/17/07, Kon Lovett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 17, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Brandon Van Every wrote: Can someone please verify that the Mac OS X build in Darcs head is working properly? I don't have a Mac to test it on. Please also do a make install, make uninstall, make install

Re: [Chicken-users] is Mac OS X build working in Darcs?

2007-05-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/17/07, Kon Lovett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 17, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Brandon Van Every wrote: On 5/17/07, Kon Lovett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having core dumps 'undefined variable |?|' from chicken components. However, this is not a stock build. I am removing

[Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/17/07, Shawn W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 15, 2007, at 7:35 AM, Brandon Van Every wrote: At a first go, read INSTALL-CMake.txt and try to build Chicken on your Mac OS X. Then see the bugtracker ticket I've just added about universal binaries. http://trac.callcc.org/ticket/214

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/17/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/17/07, Shawn W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 15, 2007, at 7:35 AM, Brandon Van Every wrote: At a first go, read INSTALL-CMake.txt and try to build Chicken on your Mac OS X. Then see the bugtracker ticket I've just added

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-17 Thread Brandon Van Every
to be in the Darcs repo. They are supposed to be generated from the Darcs repo. Whose boot/cfiles would you use, canonically speaking? They're always going to be different, their changelog would be voluminous noise. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-16 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/15/07, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every scripsit: We've had a feature complete, field tested, all but bug free CMake build for awhile now. It took 1 man year to produce. It is the only way to produce the MSVC versions of Chicken, and it is preferred for MinGW

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-16 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/16/07, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every scripsit: Having the 2nd invocation of make install repeat the build from scratch is not that important a bug, and all evidence says it's a Linux specific bug. I'd like to see if it happens on a Solaris or BSD system. I've

[Chicken-users] CMake make install bug on Linux (was Mac OS X static library names)

2007-05-16 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/16/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/16/07, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every scripsit: Having the 2nd invocation of make install repeat the build from scratch is not that important a bug, and all evidence says it's a Linux specific bug

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-15 Thread Brandon Van Every
whatever the user wanted. I've created a bug tracker entry, complete with your comments. Anyone interested, let's move the conversation there. http://trac.callcc.org/ticket/215 Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-15 Thread Brandon Van Every
of versioning. I haven't really gone up the C# learning curve enough to recall whether an Assembly is a C# or a .NET concept though. Nor whether it provides an ultimate solution. Don't know if Java solves it either. The theme is to put versioning in the language though. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-14 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/13/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey I just had a brilliant idea. We don't have to rename anything. We could just symlink libchicken-s.a to libchicken.a. Then the user can have his cake and eat it too. On the other hand, we could eliminate all support for static

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-14 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/14/07, Thomas Christian Chust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every wrote: [...] On the other hand, we could eliminate all support for static linking, bowing to the One True Apple Way Of Doing Things [TM]. How do people feel about that? I wouldn't mind if static linking

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-14 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/14/07, Peter Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 11:55:31AM -0400, Brandon Van Every wrote: Any static linking horror stories out there? Sure, I have some that aren't necessarily apple related, but could happen on that platform. Ok Mac OS X users, what say you

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-14 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/14/07, Shawn W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 14, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Brandon Van Every wrote: Ok Mac OS X users, what say you? Should we tie your hands for your own good, or give you the freedom to cut off your own fingers? I don't care about static linking. I've yet to hear

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-14 Thread Brandon Van Every
first, I added tickets about that. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-14 Thread Brandon Van Every
to either fake it or recompile lotsa source files. I chose to fake it, and I wonder if there's anything incorrect or hazardous about the fake. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman

Re: [Chicken-users] Mac OS X static library names

2007-05-13 Thread Brandon Van Every
to libchicken.a. Then the user can have his cake and eat it too. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] CMake build

2007-05-09 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/4/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/1/07, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every scripsit: Ew. Not a case use I remember thinking about, so wouldn't shock me if there's something wrong. I'll look into it. It's actually a pretty common

Re: [Chicken-users] CMake build

2007-05-04 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/1/07, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every scripsit: Ew. Not a case use I remember thinking about, so wouldn't shock me if there's something wrong. I'll look into it. It's actually a pretty common circumstance when you are updating your Chicken regularly from

Re: [Chicken-users] CMake build

2007-05-01 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/1/07, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon Van Every scripsit: It suggests that CMake has bugs on Linux, and that people would have to resolve them by posting on the CMake mailing list. There could be 2 separate bugs here. At least now we have confirmation that the make

Re: [Chicken-users] CMake build

2007-04-30 Thread Brandon Van Every
have to resolve them by posting on the CMake mailing list. There could be 2 separate bugs here. At least now we have confirmation that the make install bug isn't just on Felix's box. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: [Chicken-hackers] VS support

2007-04-30 Thread Brandon Van Every
, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] scheme, builds, and virtual appliances

2007-04-30 Thread Brandon Van Every
abstract work everywhere infrastructure simply don't exist. I can't even get people to do modest amounts of bughunting for the Visual Studio 2005 Express compiler. Cheers, Brandon Van Every ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http