On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 08:27:59PM -0600, Chris Brannon wrote: > Jim Pryor wrote: > > I'm exploring various Scheme implementations and at the moment am liking > > Chicken. I don't know the community very well, but it sounds like it's > > one of the large and active Scheme communities. For the casual > > bystander: the Lisp community is fractured into Scheme and Common Lisp, > > and each of these is further fractured into many different > > "implementations." Maybe the biggest Scheme community is PLT Scheme? I > > don't know. But Chicken is one of the large ones. > > Yes, in terms of popularity, PLT and Chicken seem to be clear leaders. > Like Chicken, PLT has its own package system, with plenty of third-party > libraries. > > One neat thing about Chicken Scheme is its integration with C. The compiler, > csc, produces small executables as well. > > > Now I've got all of these chicken-* packages I could make available on > > AUR. I think anyone else using Arch and Chicken would find them very > > convenient. Chicken has its own package management system, but if you > > use Arch I think it's nicer to do things through pacman. > > It's too bad that we don't have a really solid way to integrate pacman > with the proliferation of "alien" package management systems in use today. > > > What should I do? Post them to AUR and maintain them minimally > > until someone else comes along who can commit more seriously to them? > > That sounds reasonable to me.
Thanks Chris. I've posted all the packages now, under the names chicken-*. -- Jim Pryor [email protected]
