Re: [Chicken-hackers] CHICKEN on GuixSD

AFAICT, Chicken only supports sourcing eggs from a single repository. You can change the repository at build, run, or install time, but there is only ever one repository. http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Extensions#changing-repository-location -Dan On 2016-07-18 08:01 PM, John J Foerch wrote: > >

Re: [Chicken-hackers] user-information update for OpenBSD

Peter Bex scripsit: > Yeah, but what if you're writing, say, a login manager or ssh replacement > in Scheme? Then you need to be able to crypt & compare the password and > preferably use a portable API to get the crypted password. Then make such a portable API and don't try to use getpasswd()

Re: [Chicken-hackers] user-information update for OpenBSD

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:13:28PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > Christian Kellermann scripsit: > > > Maybe it makes sense to split out the sensitive information from the > > user-information for all Operating systems and thinking of another set > > of procedures that will produce the credentials.

Re: [Chicken-hackers] user-information update for OpenBSD

Christian Kellermann scripsit: > Maybe it makes sense to split out the sensitive information from the > user-information for all Operating systems and thinking of another set > of procedures that will produce the credentials. These can then use OS > specific functions to get at the information.

Re: [Chicken-hackers] user-information update for OpenBSD

* Timo Myyrä [160719 12:30]: > I think that would be more sensible approach. user-information would return > info > from /etc/passwd and then another procedure to get the encrypted password. > > That would probably happen for 5.0? Yes, 5.0 is the ultimate excuse to

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

* Timo Myyrä [160719 11:49]: > Peter Bex writes: > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:53:07AM +0300, Timo Myyrä wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Chicken manuals are currently little sparse and use older man(7) format. > >> Would it make sense to update

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

On 2016-07-19 12:14, Timo Myyrä wrote: > Yeah, those are my patches. Ha, well, in that case thanks and nice work. It sounds like the other hackers are generally open to this as long as it can be plugged into the build with relatively little pain, so a self-contained patch for this would be

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

Peter Bex writes: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:53:07AM +0300, Timo Myyrä wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Chicken manuals are currently little sparse and use older man(7) format. >> Would it make sense to update the manual pages and switch to using mdoc(7) >> format in them? Mdoc(7)

Re: [Chicken-hackers] user-information update for OpenBSD

Christian Kellermann writes: > * Timo Myyrä [160719 09:20]: > >> Hi, >> >> OpenBSD-current was changed so that shadow database isn't opened by default >> anymore: >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.cvs/155646 >> >> This affects calls to

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

Evan Hanson writes: > Hi Timo, > > On 2016-07-19 10:53, Timo Myyr wrote: >> What do you think? > > I'm very much in favor of a change in this direction. > > Note that zmyrgel has already done most of the work to produce new > mandoc sources; see

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

* Peter Bex [160719 10:08]: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:53:07AM +0300, Timo Myyrä wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Chicken manuals are currently little sparse and use older man(7) format. > > Would it make sense to update the manual pages and switch to using mdoc(7) > > format in

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

Hi Timo, On 2016-07-19 10:53, Timo Myyr� wrote: > What do you think? I'm very much in favor of a change in this direction. Note that zmyrgel has already done most of the work to produce new mandoc sources; see http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1177#comment:1. Cheers, Evan

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Using mandoc for chicken manual pages?

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:53:07AM +0300, Timo Myyrä wrote: > Hi, > > Chicken manuals are currently little sparse and use older man(7) format. > Would it make sense to update the manual pages and switch to using mdoc(7) > format in them? Mdoc(7) format is easier to work on and the manual pages