Re: [Chicken-users] How to bootstrap developing a CHICKEN application?

2015-02-06 Thread Andy Bennett
Hi, The nice thing about structuring your application as an egg is that you get some interesting things for free. For example, cross-compilation support and the availability of egg-related tools (e.g., salmonella). Isn't cross-compilation something you only get if you use the setup-api? Of

Re: [Chicken-users] How to bootstrap developing a CHICKEN application?

2015-02-06 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi Andy, On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:59:20 + Andy Bennett andy...@ashurst.eu.org wrote: The nice thing about structuring your application as an egg is that you get some interesting things for free. For example, cross-compilation support and the availability of egg-related tools (e.g.,

Re: [Chicken-users] How to bootstrap developing a CHICKEN application?

2015-02-04 Thread Stephen Eilert
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Bahman Movaqar bah...@bahmanm.com wrote: On 02/01/2015 03:57 AM, Bahman Movaqar wrote: A naive question but suppose I want to write an application (not an egg); an application in the sense that it will not be installed in CHICKEN repository. What is the

Re: [Chicken-users] How to bootstrap developing a CHICKEN application?

2015-02-01 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi Bahman, On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 03:57:40 +0330 Bahman Movaqar bah...@bahmanm.com wrote: A naive question but suppose I want to write an application (not an egg); an application in the sense that it will not be installed in CHICKEN repository. What is the recommended directory structure? How

Re: [Chicken-users] How to bootstrap developing a CHICKEN application?

2015-02-01 Thread Peter Bex
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 03:57:40AM +0330, Bahman Movaqar wrote: A naive question but suppose I want to write an application (not an egg); an application in the sense that it will not be installed in CHICKEN repository. What is the recommended directory structure? How can I run the tests (like

Re: [Chicken-users] How to bootstrap developing a CHICKEN application?

2015-02-01 Thread Bahman Movaqar
On 02/01/2015 03:57 AM, Bahman Movaqar wrote: A naive question but suppose I want to write an application (not an egg); an application in the sense that it will not be installed in CHICKEN repository. What is the recommended directory structure? How can I run the tests (like 'chicken-install

Re: [Chicken-users] How to bootstrap developing a CHICKEN application?

2015-02-01 Thread Peter Bex
On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 11:21:47AM +0100, Peter Bex wrote: Some examples of eggs that install binaries are: hyde, awful, slatex, {svn-,git-,}egg-author, chicken-belt. Correction: egg-author is not an egg but a Mercurial extension. The other two *-egg-author are programs distributed as eggs,

[Chicken-users] How to bootstrap developing a CHICKEN application?

2015-01-31 Thread Bahman Movaqar
A naive question but suppose I want to write an application (not an egg); an application in the sense that it will not be installed in CHICKEN repository. What is the recommended directory structure? How can I run the tests (like 'chicken-install -test')? How can I express dependencies? Or is it