[Chicken-users] SRFI-19

2009-04-14 Thread Eduardo Cavazos
Hello, I installed the SRFI-19 egg a little while ago on Chicken 3.4.0. However, it seems that basic procedures like 'current-time' aren't available: ~ # csi CHICKEN (c)2008 The Chicken Team (c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann Version 3.4.0 - linux-unix-gnu-x86 [ manyargs dload ptables

Re: [Chicken-users] SRFI-19

2009-04-14 Thread Peter Bex
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:20:37AM -0500, Eduardo Cavazos wrote: Hello, I installed the SRFI-19 egg a little while ago on Chicken 3.4.0. However, it seems that basic procedures like 'current-time' aren't available: ~ # csi CHICKEN (c)2008 The Chicken Team (c)2000-2007 Felix L.

Re: [Chicken-users] IPhone

2009-04-14 Thread felix winkelmann
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Nicholas Indy Ray arel...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:54 AM, felix winkelmann bunny...@gmail.com wrote: This is so crazy. As if GC'd memory management would be less safe the manual memory management. The absurdity is breathtaking. I doubt the

Re: [Chicken-users] Experience of using Chicken in production environment

2009-04-14 Thread Tobia Conforto
Hello I would like to follow up with a few basic (even trivial?) considerations and ask this list for opinions on the matter. As a developer, I'm both a user and an author of sofware. I find that these two roles often put the focus on conflicting aspects of software development. As a

Re: [Chicken-users] Experience of using Chicken in production environment

2009-04-14 Thread felix winkelmann
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: 1. Skipped release. Right at the start the Chicken project is close to 4.0 release, the last announced (stable) release is 3.4.0. At the same time, there exists 3.5.0 release, which is more recent stable release as per

Re: [Chicken-users] SRFI-19

2009-04-14 Thread Kon Lovett
On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:51 AM, Peter Bex wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 02:20:37AM -0500, Eduardo Cavazos wrote: Hello, I installed the SRFI-19 egg a little while ago on Chicken 3.4.0. However, it seems that basic procedures like 'current-time' aren't available: ~ # csi CHICKEN (c)2008 The

Re: [Chicken-users] Experience of using Chicken in production environment

2009-04-14 Thread Kon Lovett
On Apr 10, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Aleksej Saushev wrote: Hello! snip 7. No comments. $ chicken-setup -d srfi-19 *** output flushed *** $ csi *** output flushed *** #;1 (use srfi-19) *** output flushed *** #;2 (date-string (current-date)) Sun Nov 15 20:58:47-18761321 1987 #;3 $ date Sat Apr 11

Re: [Chicken-users] SRFI-19

2009-04-14 Thread Peter Bex
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:16:37AM -0700, Kon Lovett wrote: The '(use ...' has been inactive for some time. The setup specifies 'require-at-runtime' which is sufficient to load the components. Please tell me more about systems where this is not true. (MacOS 10.5 shouldn't be one of

[Chicken-users] Keyword parameters bug?

2009-04-14 Thread Alonso Andres
It seems there is a bug in Chicken (I'm using version 4.0) when using procedures with keywords parameters. Example: --[$ csi] #;1 (define (test-proc #!key some-arg string) (display some-arg) (newline) (display string) (newline)) #;2 (test-proc some-arg: X string: Y) X #procedure (string

Re: [Chicken-users] current base64 on chicken 3 incorrect?

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Ursetto
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:57 PM, felix winkelmann bunny...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Graham Fawcett graham.fawc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, The current base64 egg for Chicken 3 builds, but gives me incorrect results. The non-working version is by Bailey, ported by

Re: [Chicken-users] SRFI-19

2009-04-14 Thread Kon Lovett
On Apr 14, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Peter Bex wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:16:37AM -0700, Kon Lovett wrote: The '(use ...' has been inactive for some time. The setup specifies 'require-at-runtime' which is sufficient to load the components. Please tell me more about systems where this is not

Re: [Chicken-users] Experience of using Chicken in production environment

2009-04-14 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Kon Lovett klov...@pacbell.net writes: On Apr 10, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Aleksej Saushev wrote: Hello! snip 7. No comments. $ chicken-setup -d srfi-19 *** output flushed *** $ csi *** output flushed *** #;1 (use srfi-19) *** output flushed *** #;2 (date-string (current-date)) Sun Nov

[Chicken-users] Re: Experience of using Chicken in production environment

2009-04-14 Thread Aleksej Saushev
felix winkelmann bunny...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: 2. Unsupported stable branch. Meanwhile Chicken development continues and it's going to enter pre-release state. From the development list I learn that 4.0.0 is really a major

Re: [Chicken-users] IPhone

2009-04-14 Thread Nicholas Indy Ray
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:15 AM, felix winkelmann bunny...@gmail.com wrote: I can understand that conservative GC is seen as a problem (it is by definition not reliable), but there are many GC strategies and a good, precise automatic memory manager that is safe for space complexity will

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-install: prefix problem

2009-04-14 Thread fulvio ciriaco
I installed from svn trunk and chicken-install works fine now. It took some time to understand how to teach the build system where system libraries are kept. Perhaps README or Makefile.$(PLATFORM) should document C_COMPILER_OPTIONS LINKER_OPTIONS Here, NetBSD, one needs C_COMPILER_OPTIONS +=

[Chicken-users] Problems with xml-rpc

2009-04-14 Thread Petter Egesund
Hi, I get an error when trying to use the small example at the bottom of the xml-rpc-egg (the client server one) Still using chicken 3.4.0 on Linux. Any clue? Cheers, Petter Egesund Dump --- HICKEN (c)2008 The Chicken Team (c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann Version 3.4.0 -