Re: [Chicken-hackers] manual and chicken4 infrastructure

2009-03-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
once in a while... But, yes, we'll also have to deal with the fact that lots of things will be stuck on chicken 3 just because that's how package systems work. So the chicken 3 infrastructure will need to keep working for a while. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Making chicken-install amenable to automation

2009-06-10 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
a whole egg at a given revision. See: http://chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk/henrietta.cgi?name=defstructversion=1.1 I'm not sure offhand if chicken-install will take such a file from the filesystem and just install it, though! But the feature would be easily added. Tim ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym

Re: [Chicken-hackers] R6RS

2009-08-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
can have it if they want it, but it's not the default? ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/?author=4 ___ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers

[Chicken-hackers] svnsync for egg mirrors

2010-08-10 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
, I'd be glad if anybody who can think of a reason why this might be a Bad Idea would raise their hands! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org

Re: [Chicken-hackers] svnsync for egg mirrors

2010-08-10 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 08/10/10 10:05, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: Hello! I've been experimenting with using svnsync to mirror the eggs SVN repo. PS, for those who want to try it out and look for issues, it's at http://chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk/svn2/ (while the normal mirror is at http://chicken.kitten

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest

2010-08-24 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
(which may include the egg's own license if it's viral, and which all dependent eggs inherit). Then people can easily know if they've just built a GPL binary! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-hackers mailing list

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest

2010-08-24 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 08/24/10 11:18, Peter Bex wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:08:56AM +0100, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: Hmmm. Perhaps the answer, then, is to make a nice (public domain!) plugin-registry egg that handles this for us. Feel free to write one :) I do ;-) It's something that might benefit Ugarit

Re: [Chicken-hackers] blob-literal read syntax

2010-10-18 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
of addressible memory cells, with no particular interpretation of the contents as numbers, characters, or smells, while SRFI-4 places definite semantic models on the contents of a region of memory. So I see a desire to separate the concepts! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

Re: [Chicken-hackers] blob-literal read syntax

2010-10-18 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 10/18/10 15:31, John Cowan wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.uk wrote: In my cosy little world, blobs are just an ordered sequence of addressible memory cells, with no particular interpretation of the contents as numbers, characters, or smells

Re: [Chicken-hackers] specialization

2011-08-08 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
object-oriented extensions interface with this when declaring methods? Is it practical? ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-meisters] Let's have a roadmap, just like the grown-ups

2011-09-07 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
a chance to save up. I would like to concentrate on code. Programming, you know? Yes! Kind regards, Christian ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-meisters] Let's have a roadmap, just like the grown-ups

2011-09-08 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] deprecate constant declaration, document pure

2011-09-13 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
effects (and thus calls to it may be eliminated). This declaration was previously named constant, which is now deprecated. Looks fine to me. I concur! I now feel compelled to bother to declare this kind of thing in my own code... Cheers, Peter ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

2012-01-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

2012-01-04 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
in any shape or form, so that will hardly be a problem ;-) cheers, felix ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8EITsACgkQRgz

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Flow-analysis enhancement for assigned variables

2012-01-30 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
references around in Scheme, so you can always lexically analyse it, but being able to mutate the internals of arbitrary data structures can be a pain. ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-users] Summer 2012 meetup in the UK?

2012-01-31 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/2012 03:45 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: Dear Chickeners, Having just moved into a much larger house than I previously lived in (one large enough to have an actual guest room, plus a playroom for the kids that we're equipping as a second

[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Allow assert to accept an arbitrary expression as the message

2012-03-08 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
explicit (-string ...) around the message, due to the philosophy that it's good for debugging logging tools to not break due to an error in generating the error message, but instead to print whatever it can... ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Documentation: Clarify the meaning of define-record

2012-03-09 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
, I never actually posted it here! Enjoy, ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9Z2A4ACgkQRgz/WHNxCGozRwCfR45BVwjNWXFDGlqoZcLCAIGg

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Allow assert to accept an arbitrary expression as the message

2012-03-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
that? I'll think of better wording. cheers, felix ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9d6CQACgkQRgz

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Minutes of 2012-06-14 IRC meeting

2012-06-19 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
or parameterizations or whatever from the primordial thread and use that, while still blocking the primordial thread - rather than involving the scheduler in the core. cheers, felix ABS - -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] catch exceptions in finalizers, remove dynamic resizing of finalizer vector

2012-06-19 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
could be left pointing to whatever state might be needed to finalize the real object, as the real object would be unreachable by the time the finalizer was triggered. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-hackers mailing

[Chicken-hackers] Chicken UK 2012 is looming!

2012-06-20 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
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[Chicken-hackers] Fwd: Re: 4.8.0 release?

2012-09-09 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
:57 +0100 From: Alaric Snell-Pym ala...@snell-pym.org.uk To: Peter Bex peter@xs4all.nl On 09/09/12 11:55, Peter Bex wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 01:14:50AM -0400, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:05:36 +0200 (CEST) Felixfe...@call-with-current-continuation.org wrote

Re: [Chicken-hackers] ep

2013-07-11 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/2013 08:09 PM, Evan Hanson wrote: On 2013-07-09 12:41, .alyn.post. wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 08:37:18PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote: Nah, just raise an exception. An exception certainly works for me. +1. IMO this is something that

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1058 and (hopefully) #1045

2013-10-14 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
of subtle bugs takes persistence and hard work! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-janitors] #1045: [panic] out of memory - heap full while resizing - execution terminated (awful-picman)

2013-10-18 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
in a process which talks to sql-de-lite pretty heavily; I had problems with one that doesn't, but they were different problems). I look forward to having a moment to rebuild everything against the trunk chicken and re-running my unit test suite! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk

Re: [Chicken-hackers] pastiche db drop

2014-02-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
appearing while I quickly grabbed the most recent backup and restored it, then when that was done, I started answering the phone and saying Oh... can you try again? Oh, that worked now? Excellent!). ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [Chicken-hackers] pastiche db drop

2014-02-03 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
about a bit at http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2012/12/27/logging-profiling-debugging-and-reporting-progress/ - but not so much on the fault-tolerance side. ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] improve performance of write-u8vector

2014-10-29 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
time, 0.599s GC time (major), 450360 mutations, 228/159304 GCs (major/minor) real4m25.672s user0m57.826s sys 7m7.736s Good work Thomas :-D Cheers, Evan ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Chicken-hackers] egg make depends

2014-12-23 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
won't be necessary :-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH][5] numbers integration

2015-02-11 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
at micro-optimisations of the code in future; I'm assuming we may be able to do something with range analysis to prove the fixnuminess of some numbers, and specialisation on fixnums in future. Cheers, Peter Great work, Peter! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Improve performance of read-u8vector

2015-07-13 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
tests at the weekend and report back :-D Cheers to all involved, Evan Thanks, ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Make result of empty "else" clause undefined in `cond' and `case' forms

2018-04-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
nhandled case is *meant* to do nothing, rather than being an omission on the part of the author. However, if others can think of likely situations where this is a mistake, I'll concede a warning :-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ ___