On 22 Nov 2014, at 19:07, Peter Bex <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 07:01:44PM +0300, Oleg Kolosov wrote: >> Hello! >> >> Considering that Visual Studio 2013 is now essentially free >> (http://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs) I’m taking >> the opportunity to announce again that I’m working on a version of CHICKEN >> Scheme which can be compiled with it (with the help of CMake). >> >> There are few other changes not supported by the CHICKEN developers. >> Roughly, the current agenda is: >> >> - make the code more approachable to an occasional contributor >> - replace the scheduler and posix support code with libuv facilities >> - better cross-compilation support >> - source level debugging >> - more usable profiler >> >> You are welcome to follow/fork me on github: >> >> https://github.com/bazurbat/chicken-scheme >> https://github.com/bazurbat/chicken-eggs > > Hello Oleg, > > I applaud your efforts to make CHICKEN work better under Windows. > However, I took a look at your fork and it looks like you're making > various sweeping changes. Do you have a plan for making the merge > back into CHICKEN core, or are you intending to maintain a real fork? > > Cheers, > Peter
Well, merging back into the core will make me happy, but, before that, I plan to actually implement the aforementioned features. Right now I have only barely working prototypes. You, as an upstream, have strong policies and obligations (like maintaining backward compatibility and such) which will slow me down. I prefer to rapidly change everything without discussions. So, it looks like this will be a real fork for the time being. The development is completely public, on github, and I don’t mind breaking things, maybe this will encourage people who does not want to bother with patches and mailing lists to contribute. The test suite still passes and I have complex production system (thread heavy and performance sensitive) which still runs, so I hope the real breakage will not go unnoticed. -- Regards, Oleg Art System _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
