Re: [Chicken-users] Qt egg

2009-12-01 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
I was under the impression that the QT egg was more a demo, then an egg ment to be practical, and hence was *finished*. I myself would like QT bindings. Considering such I decided I'd start writing some myself; My approach was two fold, first to generate a set of macros that would generate proper

[Chicken-users] Freetype patch

2009-10-09 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
I've attached a diff (from Chicken3 svn) of the freetype egg to get it building and running on Chicken4. I only needed it to get text lengths so I'm not sure that it actually renders. Regardless it's at least part of the way there. Nicholas "Indy" Ray freetype.dif

Re: [Chicken-users] Bignums in core

2009-10-03 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
magically coerce something which needs to be an exact integer. Sorry, I don't understand this comment, if they were to do that, set-file-position! should receive an exact number, and handle it just fine. Nicholas "Indy" Ray ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Bignums in core

2009-10-03 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > There's no need to implement everything at once... > > In this case, I'm saying that rather than accept the *wrong* argument > (inexact integers), we have a need for larger exact integers than we can > support at present, and the right

Re: [Chicken-users] Bignums in core

2009-10-03 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
Bignums are nice and all, but I hardly see it as a practical necessity. Plus if I had to choose between fix/flonums or bignums and slower number performance, I'd choose the prior, that is why I use chicken! Indy On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:39 PM, John Cowan wrote: > Kon Lovett scripsit: > > > I a

Re: [Chicken-users] set-file-position! only works with fixnums

2009-10-03 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
g for the platform (LGPL 3 has an anti-tivoization clause afaik) or where the NDA prevents releasing of any required modifications for the platform. Nicholas "Indy" Ray ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.o

Re: [Chicken-users] Ref foreign type.

2009-09-22 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
);") > (location c > > Of course, you must then compile with csc -c++. > Jim > > 2009/9/21 Nicholas "Indy" Ray : > > I've been trying to use the "ref" FFI type (as documented here: > > http://chicken.wiki.br/man/4/Foreign%20type%20speci

[Chicken-users] Ref foreign type.

2009-09-21 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
I've been trying to use the "ref" FFI type (as documented here: http://chicken.wiki.br/man/4/Foreign%20type%20specifiers#(ref TYPE) ) with no success. Here is an example of my usage: (print ((foreign-lambda* bool (((ref char) mC)) "C_return(mC == 'c');") #\c)) compiling this with csc f

Re: [Chicken-users] Fwd: Newbie question - Converting SKILL/Scheme to C.

2009-09-01 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
ated to my incorrect usage of Chicken. > > > Is the above within the confines of this group? If it is, I'll send > the code that was causing me problems, and would appreciate any help, > > Best regards > Yaron > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Nicholas

Re: [Chicken-users] Fwd: Newbie question - Converting SKILL/Scheme to C.

2009-09-01 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
Sorry, But I don't think the HTML was the major problem with the email. First of all it's not clear what you are trying to do. Second of all without any code to see what's generating you're errors it's hard to diagnose. Also things like "(() if (opptapObj->tap == "None" then return (nil) else r

[Chicken-users] check-errors egg error

2009-08-28 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
I might be doing something wrong but when doing a check-errors install on chicken 4.1.0 I get a build error. The Chicken install is done for macosx x86-64 with prefix set to a directory in my home dir. Any help diagnosing this problem would be appreciated. Doing the install with chicken-install

Re: [Chicken-users] Website Certificate

2009-08-11 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
Yeah, That's because it's a self signed certificate, It doesn't make much sense to pay the $100+ fee just for wiki editing auth. Nicholas "Indy" Ray On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Sam Varner wrote: > When I try to edit a page on the wiki, my browser compl

Re: [Chicken-users] Testing an egg under development

2009-07-30 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, bill wrote: > I'm trying my first egg, but am having a problem testing it.   It says in > the tutorial that if your egg has foreign functions you should load the .so > file.   Can somebody explain how you do that? (load "somelib.so") loads a .so... Indy

[Chicken-users] chicken wiki search

2009-07-26 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
to get the wiki search more functional, or alternatively would it be easy to clear the chicken wiki index? Nicholas "Indy" Ray ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] New ports for chicken4

2009-06-23 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
That's great, I've been meaning to port a few of those eggs, this will ease my transition greatly! Indy On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Christian Kellermann wrote: > Hello chicken-fans, > > I have spent the last days porting some eggs to chicken-4.0.0. The > result is available as a huge diff at

Re: [Chicken-users] Dumbass newbie questions. Sorry.

2009-04-16 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
err http://chicken.wiki.br/man/3/Unit%20posix#pipes for the third link. Indy On 4/16/09, Nicholas "Indy" Ray wrote: > On 4/16/09, neil.bay...@gmail.com wrote: > > First question: For various reasons, I can't switch to chicken 4 any time > > soon. But I can'

Re: [Chicken-users] Dumbass newbie questions. Sorry.

2009-04-16 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
On 4/16/09, neil.bay...@gmail.com wrote: > First question: For various reasons, I can't switch to chicken 4 any time > soon. But I can't find the eggs for 3.4 etc. Where are they? Chicken-setup will download the chicken eggs, the ref is here: http://chicken.wiki.br/eggref/3/index > Second questi

Re: [Chicken-users] IPhone

2009-04-14 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
issue on the IPhone. Indy On 4/14/09, felix winkelmann wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Nicholas "Indy" Ray > wrote: > > > > Alas, I feel we are getting farther from really discovering why Apple > > has chosen to eliminate GC from the IPhone S

Re: [Chicken-users] IPhone

2009-04-14 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:15 AM, felix winkelmann wrote: > I can understand that conservative GC is seen as a problem (it is > by definition not reliable), but there are many GC strategies and > a good, precise automatic memory manager that is safe for space > complexity will actually use less sto

Re: [Chicken-users] IPhone

2009-04-13 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:54 AM, felix winkelmann wrote: > This is so crazy. As if GC'd memory management would be less safe > the manual memory management. The absurdity is breathtaking. I doubt the choice is for safety, in general manually managed applications in general make less allocations,

Re: [Chicken-users] IPhone

2009-04-10 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
ode > in Objective C, or write my own scheme -> Objective C compiler). > > Thanks! > > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Nicholas "Indy" Ray > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:15 PM, lowly coder >> wrote: >> > Wait ... the Apple De

Re: [Chicken-users] IPhone

2009-04-09 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:15 PM, lowly coder wrote: > Wait ... the Apple Developer Agreement has strict requirements against GC? > Where? I've never had a dev agreement say what technical things you can and > can't do. Are they going to ban linked lists, maps, and my hand rolled > memory allocator

Re: [Chicken-users] IPhone

2009-04-09 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
I think actually getting it running should be trivial, interfacing with cocoa might be a bit harder, but not impossible. I figure the largest problems is that the Apple developer agreement has strict requirements against GC, and in a GC language I figure it's likely to run up against the memory lim

Re: [Chicken-users] pointer-pointer-ref

2009-03-12 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
Something simular to you're pointer-pointer-ref is what I was using. and semantically it seems to be best. Indy On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Eduardo Cavazos wrote: > Eduardo Cavazos wrote: > >> XQueryTree is a function from xlib: >> >> extern Status XQueryTree( >>    Display*        /* displ

[Chicken-users] synch test code.

2009-02-26 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
run cleanly on chiken 4 otherwise I'd appreciate getting ahold of it for testing purposes. Nicholas "Indy" Ray ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken-Profile exclusive time.

2009-02-23 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
g that my functions should be tail recursive. and in my situation it'd likely be useful to just finish the timing before the tail call, but I don't know how general that would be. Nicholas "Indy" Ray ___ Chicken-users mailing list Ch

[Chicken-users] Chicken-Profile exclusive time.

2009-02-22 Thread Nicholas "Indy" Ray
to get it within a more reasonable amount of time would be appreciated. Thanks, Nicholas "Indy" Ray ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users