Re: [Chicken-users] .meta needs on a per platform basis

2007-01-08 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/8/07, Kon Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would an extension of the needs clause like this be sufficient: > > needs = (needs EXTENSION-ID ...) >| (needs ((FEATURE-ID EXTENSION-ID ...) ...) > > i.e. like the body of a `cond-expand' form? I think so. I use forms like this in

Re: [Chicken-users] Subversion support misguided IMHO

2007-01-08 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
minh thu wrote: I think Peter is asking for faster one-way Darcs --> Subversion mirroring, so that platforms without Darcs can get a more accurate read-only dump of the source pool. Perhaps Tailor can help with that. I don't know what the current mechanism is; it sounds like it is not automate

Re: [Chicken-users] Subversion support misguided IMHO

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Busser
Hi! > I don't > see any technical risk in fiddling with Darcs --> Subversion mirroring, > even if it doesn't fit my social agenda. Exactly! In fact, I don't even like Subversion's centralised development model. But it is a fact that many people love and use Subversion. And the idea of letting d

Re: [Chicken-users] Implementing CL-style array literal syntax

2007-01-08 Thread Kon Lovett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 8, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: Hello Kon and folks, I will modify the reader in 'array-lib' when available. I'm afraid now we can't "chicken-setup array-lib" with the current stable Chicken version and the latest

Re: [Chicken-users] Implementing CL-style array literal syntax

2007-01-08 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hello Kon and folks, On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:40:02 -0800 Kon Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 5, 2007, at 4:44 AM, felix winkelmann wrote: > > >> What I'd like to see is a new set-parameterized-read-syntax procedure > >> which takes a character c and allows the reader to accept input of

Re: [Chicken-users] Subversion support misguided IMHO

2007-01-08 Thread minh thu
I think Peter is asking for faster one-way Darcs --> Subversion mirroring, so that platforms without Darcs can get a more accurate read-only dump of the source pool. Perhaps Tailor can help with that. I don't know what the current mechanism is; it sounds like it is not automated. Peter could d

Re: [Chicken-users] Subversion support misguided IMHO

2007-01-08 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
felix winkelmann wrote: On 1/8/07, Peter Busser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found it: > http://progetti.arstecnica.it/tailor > http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor > Now, how mature should I believe it to be? It's just an apt-get install away, so why don't you just give it a try and tell us wh

Re: [Chicken-users] .meta needs on a per platform basis

2007-01-08 Thread Kon Lovett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 8, 2007, at 4:43 AM, felix winkelmann wrote: On 1/7/07, Kon Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Got a problem w/ the .meta file needs entry. I think some logic there to state the platform would be useful. Ex: z3, pty, & rlimit cannot comp

Re: [Chicken-users] Subversion support misguided IMHO

2007-01-08 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/8/07, Peter Busser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found it: > http://progetti.arstecnica.it/tailor > http://darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor > Now, how mature should I believe it to be? It's just an apt-get install away, so why don't you just give it a try and tell us what you think about it? F

Re: [Chicken-users] Subversion support misguided IMHO

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Busser
Hi! > >>If I were making the decisions on such things, I would drop Subversion > >>support and force people to use / learn Darcs. > >It would be easier and more convenient for all people involved > > I think "people's convenience" has to be prioritized. Who's doing the > most core development?

Re: [Chicken-users] +nan, -inf, etc w/ WIndows

2007-01-08 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/7/07, Kon Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I use MinGW & MSYS on Windows. Chicken 2.513 (darcs head) doesn't recognize the '+nan', '-inf', etc., they are unbound. I know there was a thread about this 6 months ago but the participants seem to be using Cygwin, which I don't. Line 7338

Re: [Chicken-users] .meta needs on a per platform basis

2007-01-08 Thread felix winkelmann
On 1/7/07, Kon Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Got a problem w/ the .meta file needs entry. I think some logic there to state the platform would be useful. Ex: z3, pty, & rlimit cannot compile w/ Windows (assuming no Interex/Cygwin), but an egg that "needs" one or more of these for unix co