[Chicken-hackers] Made a start with CHICKEN 5 proposal

2014-08-23 Thread Peter Bex
Hello hackers! I've made a start on the wiki, at what we'd like CHICKEN 5 to be about. Please, do not make this into another pony page, only add things that we really need to look at which require a rework in core which may be backwards-incompatible. http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-5-roadmap I

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Made a start with CHICKEN 5 proposal

2014-08-23 Thread Oleg Kolosov
On 08/23/14 19:35, Peter Bex wrote: Hello hackers! I've made a start on the wiki, at what we'd like CHICKEN 5 to be about. Please, do not make this into another pony page, only add things that we really need to look at which require a rework in core which may be backwards-incompatible.

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Made a start with CHICKEN 5 proposal

2014-08-23 Thread Peter Bex
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:35:26PM +0400, Oleg Kolosov wrote: Thanks for the write up, it looks really promising. While at it I would like to propose changing build system to CMake with the following considerations: I'd be willing to take a close look at it, if you can send a patchset. I

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Made a start with CHICKEN 5 proposal

2014-08-23 Thread Ivan Raikov
I think these are lofty goals, but it is way too much work for a single release. Perhaps modularising the compiler and refactoring the core modules should be the goals for 5.0 release, and points 1.3-1.8 would be done as 5.x releases leading up to 6.0. As for library names, I favor fully spelled