A few days ago I put together a buildpack that allows one to run Chicken apps on Heroku; figured I'd share it here in case someone else finds it useful.
A "buildpack", for the tragically unhip, is just a handful of scripts to bootstrap an environment for a Heroku process. This one installs Chicken 4.7.0 and runs a standard chicken-install for your program -- apps can be written just like eggs, with setup- and meta-files per usual. Defining a default command to run once everything is installed is the only weird part; Heroku uses a file called a Procfile[1] to specify processes, which you can use to start e.g. an awful app on the correct port for the instance: web: awful --port=$PORT example.scm If no Procfile is present, the buildpack will try to run a file called `run.scm` in your application's root. This may or may not be a good default -- I'm open to suggestions. chickadee, pastiche and the handful of awful apps that I tried worked without any real configuration; there's an example in the README. The repository is located here: https://github.com/evhan/heroku-buildpack-chicken Hopefully this'll help someone get some hot Chicken-on-cloud action... Cheers, Evan [1]: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/procfile _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users