Re: [Chicken-users] Request for comments on the SQLite3 egg API

2007-07-02 Thread Ivan Shmakov
John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Introduce a new separate singleton type for SQL NULL values and refrain from using booleans altogether, because there is no SQL boolean type in SQLite3. I favor a variant of this: introduce a singleton type for SQL NULL values, and map #t and #f

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread Martin Percossi
Graham, many thanks for you reply; your pointers were very helpful. First: another question. Then: a few comments regarding chicken based on my (limited) use. Question: there seem to be several ways to load a scheme source file: (use test) (require 'test) (require-extension test) What are the

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread Martin Percossi
felix winkelmann wrote: The basic problem is that we don't have a windows maintainer. I think it would be preferrable that noob and eager chicken users are expressly dissuaded from trying to install on windows, which will inevitably cause hours of pain! At the very least, there should be a

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi Martin, Thanks for your feedback (about eggs, Windows stuff and Chicken in general). On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:12:03 + Martin Percossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've played around with a few eggs, such as csv, readline, man, openal, octave -- and I'm very impressed with the fact that they

Re: [Chicken-users] ftl egg

2007-07-02 Thread felix winkelmann
On 6/29/07, Thomas Christian Chust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to suggest the following algorithm: I've added it, plus the o=string and a=astring interfaces. cheers, felix ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 7/2/07, Martin Percossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All in all, I'm very satisfied with Chicken, and will continue to use chicken for my scheme programming on Unix. I will however, steer clear of windows, at least until I'm better at scheme programming and I can do better than just

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread Martin Percossi
Alex Queiroz wrote: On 7/2/07, Martin Percossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will however, steer clear of windows, at least until I'm better at scheme programming and I can do better than just pepper chicken-setup.scm with (print Got here!) statements... I use Chicken under Windows on a

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 7/2/07, Martin Percossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that case, I have a few questions regarding your setup: - are you using free compiler tools or MS? I am using MinGW's GCC, binutils, make etc. - if you use free compiler tools, do you use msys, or just MinGW? Just

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi guys, On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:15:15 -0300 Alex Queiroz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo, On 7/2/07, Martin Percossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that case, I have a few questions regarding your setup: - are you using free compiler tools or MS? I am using MinGW's GCC, binutils,

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 02 Jul 2007 10:20:17 -0300, Mario Domenech Goulart Maybe you can add those information to the Compiling Chicken on Windows XP with MinGW tutorial at http://chicken.wiki.br/compiling-chicken-on-windows-xp-with-mingw Done. Cheers, -- -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread Martin Percossi
Hello Alex, your comments were very helpful. I will try installing on windows again tonight. Alex Queiroz wrote: You must grab gzip and tar for Windows. You can get them at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Personally, I have a c:\devtools directory hierarchy (bin, lib, include etc.) with

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 7/2/07, Martin Percossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Queiroz wrote: You must grab gzip and tar for Windows. You can get them at http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Personally, I have a c:\devtools directory hierarchy (bin, lib, include etc.) with lots of useful tools and

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread John Cowan
Martin Percossi scripsit: On CMD.EXE, chicken-setup crashes because it attempts to execute a pipe: `gunzip FILE | tar xvf -'. Unfortunately gunzip doesn't exist, and as a result the command fails (even if it did succeed, I'm not sure that windows supports piping so that the command would

Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

2007-07-02 Thread Zbigniew
The manual gives more details in case you're interested: http://chicken.wiki.br/Non%20standard%20macros%20and%20special%20forms#require-extension When in doubt as to best practices, check out some of the existing egg code. On 7/2/07, felix winkelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/2/07, Martin

[Chicken-users] preferred gui library

2007-07-02 Thread Martin DeMello
What is the currently preferred cross-platform gui library to use with chicken? Are there any examples of real-world gui applications? martin ___ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org

Re: [Chicken-users] Request for comments on the SQLite3 egg API

2007-07-02 Thread Thomas Christian Chust
Ivan Shmakov wrote: John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Introduce a new separate singleton type for SQL NULL values and refrain from using booleans altogether, because there is no SQL boolean type in SQLite3. I favor a variant of this: introduce a singleton type for SQL NULL values,

Re: [Chicken-users] preferred gui library

2007-07-02 Thread Jong-Hyouk Yun
Hi, I found some mailings in archive. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2007-02/msg00055.html Cheers. 2007/7/3, Martin DeMello [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What is the currently preferred cross-platform gui library to use with chicken? Are there any examples of real-world gui

Re: [Chicken-users] preferred gui library

2007-07-02 Thread Matt Gushee
Jong-Hyouk Yun wrote: Hi, I found some mailings in archive. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2007-02/msg00055.html I saw recently that there is a GTK directory in the Chicken CVS tree. Is that related to the above-mentioned thread? Is it in active development? BTW, I really

Re: [Chicken-users] Request for comments on the SQLite3 egg API

2007-07-02 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Thomas Christian Chust [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Introduce a new separate singleton type for SQL NULL values and refrain from using booleans altogether, because there is no SQL boolean type in SQLite3. I favor a variant of this: introduce a singleton type for SQL NULL values, and map