"Derick Eddington" wrote:
> I haven't gotten around to looking at this, but I still plan to.
Wait until Monday. I hope to upload the first official pre-release
this
week end (with a number of changes in the installation
infrastructure).
DE wrote:
> Does it help with installing R6RS libraries using the common
> "./configure && make && make install"?
Yes. The "configure" script is useful to:
* select target directories;
* enable/disable installation of components (documentation
in different formats, fasl files);
* verify the availability of other libraries;
* inspect the value of constants in C language header files
and detect the size of data structures in foreign libraries;
* preprocess .sls files to make available the above values
at the Scheme level;
* offer the "at home" feeling to people used to it;
the "make" phase is useful to build stuff, including source,
binary and package distributions along with some add-ons
like automatically generated uninstall shell scripts; the
"make install" step allows one to install everything to a
temporary location, where one can inspect things, change
permissions, etc.
> Does it / will it support installing for different R6RS
> implementations?
I have decided to install libs under "${prefix}/lib/scheme"
and to avoid enclosing everything in a namespace: there is
no "nausicaa" directory and no "nausicaa" element in the
import specs.
DE wrote:
> making it work for a variety of implementations might
> be more work than you care about
Currently I am officially supporting only Ikarus, and
unofficially I try to make everything work with Ypsilon,
too (with the --compatible flag).
I am successfully mobbing Fujita into adding some feature
to make this easier (like supporting "main.sls" and the
graph notation).
The problem with Ypsilon is that I am not sure how the
(fully undocumented) ffi is to be used (especially memory
allocation protocol of blocks as bytevectors). I had to
rewrite "ffi.scm" to have functions available, rather than
syntaxes. I will see what happens.
Regarding other implementations: I am not even sorry
that I am not trying to support them. ;-)
