On 6/2/07, Shawn W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What schemes do you use, for what? Why? Know of a nifty feature or approach a particular scheme takes that most others don't? What do you think a particular version (Including chicken, of course) is best suited for?
In summary: - Windows support - retargettability I think Chicken has got its foot in the door for real Windows support, because it has the CMake build system. That said, Felix doesn't actually develop for Windows, and there aren't many Windows programmers in the Chicken community. Visual Studio Express 2005 doesn't work, but that's most likely Microsoft's fault, for providing a crippled free compiler. All the other compilers work to my knowledge. I'm still trying to obtain Vista, to see if I can duplicate some MinGW problems on it, possibly related to permissions. Despite the problems, this is actually a lot farther along than a lot of Scheme implementations. They are all too frequently guilty of Unix-centrism and building poorly on Windows. In comparison, we're building on Windows all the time, it stays working. The advantage of Chicken is its build is not a hodgepodge. One build handles all platforms, using a standard tool. That should make it easy to retarget Chicken at any platform where CMake is available, which is a lot of platforms. Cheers, Brandon Van Every _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
