Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-05 Thread felix winkelmann
On 9/4/07, Ivan Raikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stable are those versions that work with my software :-) You do make valid points in your email to Peter, and if you don't feel like declaring official stable releases and bothering with binary packages, that's fine with me. But like you say,

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-05 Thread felix winkelmann
On 9/4/07, Alex Queiroz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that's not what's happening. The trunk, which is the best and most stable, does not build at least in linux-amd64 and mingw-x86. Quite right, I should have followed my own policy and started a branch first. But it is too late now, and

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy: adding my 2/100ths of a dollar...

2007-09-05 Thread felix winkelmann
On 9/5/07, Matthew Welland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the classic kernel model that some end users (including me) would probably appreciate (just restating the obvious here for the record): This looks quite good. Perhaps a release branch, to which fixes are regularly merged from the

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new release policy

2007-09-03 Thread felix winkelmann
On 9/1/07, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:28:37PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: The chicken version has been bumped to 2.701, now. There will be no more official releases from now on, just continuously created snapshots. IMHO this is not a good idea. Other

[Chicken-hackers] back in a week

2007-08-23 Thread felix winkelmann
Hi! I'll be off-line for about a week. Please don't wander off and start learning Haskell or something like that... cheers, felix ___ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers

Re: [Chicken-hackers] anybody good with cmake?

2007-08-22 Thread felix winkelmann
On 8/20/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the real problem is that of maintenance. I feel I can't maintain the CMake build myself. You seem not to be interested in that, unless the autotools build is dropped (which, if I may say so, does what it should, even in it's

Re: [Chicken-hackers] build fails on OS X Intel due to apply-hack

2007-08-19 Thread felix winkelmann
Please try the current svn head (2.636). I resorted to an ugly hack, but can't think of anything better in the moment. cheers, felix On 8/19/07, Zbigniew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... because the apply-hack.x86.s generates C_do_apply_hack without the underscore prefix required by OS X. I

Re: [Chicken-hackers] anybody good with cmake?

2007-08-15 Thread felix winkelmann
On 8/14/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you don't work on build systems on a regular basis, I think there's a phenomenon you may be failing to appreciate. If a build system makes the basics easier for you, then you will only endeavor to tackle more difficult

Re: [Chicken-hackers] anybody good with cmake?

2007-08-14 Thread felix winkelmann
On 8/14/07, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is someone knowledgable enough and willing to help me with a few problems? I don't want chicken to fall back to autohell, so I'll investigate CMake and see if I can understand it. I never worked with it before, so give me some time to

Re: [Chicken-hackers] anybody good with cmake?

2007-08-14 Thread felix winkelmann
On 8/14/07, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: felix winkelmann scripsit: Is someone knowledgable enough and willing to help me with a few problems? Knowledgeable enough, maybe not. Willing to try, definitely. What exactly does not work? - Generation and installation of the info manual

Re: [Chicken-hackers] chicken repo (intentionally) gone

2007-08-14 Thread felix winkelmann
On 8/9/07, Arto Bendiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've myself also recently moved from using Darcs for my personal projects to instead using a combination of SVK (works pretty darn well with existing SVN repositories, but can be difficult to install due to numerous Perl dependencies) and Git.

[Chicken-hackers] anybody good with cmake?

2007-08-13 Thread felix winkelmann
Hi! I'm one hair before giving up on cmake. I'm sure it is just because I'm too stupid, but it takes me considerable effort to make it do even trivial things. Is someone knowledgable enough and willing to help me with a few problems? cheers, felix

[Chicken-hackers] chicken repo (intentionally) gone

2007-08-08 Thread felix winkelmann
Hello! The chicken darcs repo has been removed, since all development should in future go through the svn repo (subdirectory chicken in the eggs svn repository). The version there is currently not up to date (but should build) and will be sync'd in the next days. I'm somewhat fed up with darcs

Re: [Chicken-hackers] mingw regex undefined pcre references

2007-07-09 Thread felix winkelmann
On 7/6/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get these errors in current Darcs head with mingw. I did not get them when building the Chicken 2.613 tarball. Before I try to diagnose anything, does this ring any bells? I moved some some cflags from the command-line into

Re: [Chicken-hackers] compiler docs

2007-06-03 Thread felix winkelmann
On 6/2/07, Peter Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you! You're welcome. Note that this is still incomplete. In the first pass of the compilation of the N-queens problem, I see this: (let ((t15 (set! dec-to1 (lambda (n4) (##core#app

[Chicken-hackers] vacation

2007-04-27 Thread felix winkelmann
Hi! I will not be online next week, so in case something breaks massively, stay tuned. cheers, felix ___ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers

[Chicken-hackers] RFC on byte-vector API change

2007-04-12 Thread felix winkelmann
Hi! see: http://trac.callcc.org/ticket/175 The old API would stay for some undetermined time to keep code working, but I find the change makes for a bit more cleanliness. cheers, felix ___ Chicken-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Chicken-hackers] egg-post-commit

2007-03-07 Thread felix winkelmann
On 3/6/07, Zbigniew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do we need separate .html files any longer, now that we are moving to the wiki? Shouldn't the egg documentation just point to the wiki when a page is available there? The Eggs Unlimited page (redirected from call/cc.org and the page itself)

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Possible chicken performance tweak

2007-03-07 Thread felix winkelmann
On 3/6/07, Tony Sidaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tweaked my copy of chicken.scm to read each input file into a string and then compile from the string. The time saved seems to be of the order 10% on my laptop system, when tested on the 2100-line posixunix.scm. (let* ((f (car files))

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Stray diagnostic print in lolevel.scm

2007-02-05 Thread felix winkelmann
On 2/5/07, Tony Sidaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have commit access. This is a minor gripe anyway. I've been using object-evict and object-release. In calling the latter I notice that I get a printed diagnostic trace in the form release: OBJECT for each evicted object I release. This

Re: [Chicken-hackers] why Chicken?

2007-02-02 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/31/07, Tony Sidaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the core language, it might be nice to have constructs capable of handling the most common instances of C variable length argument lists. I'm aware that there are some fundamental C implementation dependencies here but if SWIG can do it

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: [SeaFunc] why Chicken?

2007-02-01 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/31/07, Brandon J. Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Small wrote: The list of eggs out there for Chicken really attracted me to it. But what turned me away (temporarily? ) and has me thinking Scheme48 (except I don't see any way to make GUIs in it) was that syntax extension

[Chicken-hackers] chicken-pcre and chicken branches have been merged

2007-01-23 Thread felix winkelmann
Hi! The pcre stuff is now in the main repository and the chicken-pcre branch has been removed. cheers, felix ___ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers

[Chicken-hackers] pcre integration and cmake

2007-01-10 Thread felix winkelmann
Hi, folks. I have added pcre (6.3) to the source tree and adapted the autotools files. I have done preliminary changes to CMakeLists.txt, but don't know how to proceed. There are a couple of files in the pcre subdirectory which have to be compiled and linked into lib[u]chicken[-static]. The

Re: [Chicken-hackers] japi egg fails

2006-12-11 Thread felix winkelmann
On 12/10/06, Brandon J. Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have the japi libraries installed? Nope. Like bb, a more graceful FindLibrary functionality would be good here. Well, there is a find-library procedure in chicken-setup, but the script for bb/japi doesn't use it, yet.

Re: [Chicken-hackers] CMake 2.4.5 ships

2006-12-05 Thread felix winkelmann
On 12/5/06, Brandon J. Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CMake 2.4.5 has shipped. Apparently CMake 2.4.4 had some major problems, prompting a quick patch release. I have bumped Chicken's build requirement to CMake 2.4.5 because I really don't want to know what CMake 2.4.4's problems were, if

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