[Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format

2007-05-18 Thread Ivan Raikov
Hi all, Can anyone tell me what it would take to restore ability for building Chicken's manual in Texinfo format? The current html parody of a manual is impossible to use. -Ivan ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format

2007-05-18 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi Ivan, On Fri, 18 May 2007 15:47:32 +0900 Ivan Raikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me what it would take to restore ability for building Chicken's manual in Texinfo format? I'm afraid there's not an easy way to do that. The current html parody of a manual is impossible to

Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format

2007-05-18 Thread Brandon Van Every
On 5/18/07, Ivan Raikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current html parody of a manual is impossible to use. You're exaggerating. Please be specific about what's impacting your workflow. Please also be objective about how much time you're losing, rather than dwelling on matters of taste.

[Chicken-users] R6RS

2007-05-18 Thread Graham Fawcett
It's a slow Friday afternoon, so let me pose a provocative, non-technical question: What does the impending ratification of the R6RS standard mean for Chicken, and for you? At the onset of R6RS' process, Felix shared his misgivings about its scope and substance. I doubt that Chicken's going to

Re: [Chicken-users] R6RS

2007-05-18 Thread Stephen Ramsay
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:16:11PM -0400, Graham Fawcett wrote: It's a slow Friday afternoon, so let me pose a provocative, non-technical question: What does the impending ratification of the R6RS standard mean for Chicken, and for you? I'd love it if someone could point me to some kind of

Re: [Chicken-users] R6RS

2007-05-18 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 5/18/07, Stephen Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love it if someone could point me to some kind of bottom-line overview of the new standard (what's new, what's being discarded, etc.) I've hunted around for such a thing and browsed through the spec itself, and while I see lots of

Re: [Chicken-users] R6RS

2007-05-18 Thread Michael McDermott
The bottom line is that you can think of the R6RS as an attempt to move Scheme into the mainstream. Scheme has been, throughout its existence, a minimalist language. This has been both its strength and its weakness. Its strength in that, because there is a great deal of latitude in the standard,

Re: [Chicken-users] calling all Vista users

2007-05-18 Thread Ian Oversby
I did have tar, gzip and gunzip in my path, yes. I've reinstalled Vista since then though I've not tried to install Chicken again. I was unable to submit a response to Trac as it told me Submission rejected as potential spam. Ian On 17/05/07, Brandon Van Every [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We