Re: [Chicken-users] is the readline egg dead?

Hello Kristian, > I don't know about the status on the C4 readline egg, whether a C5 port is > planned or whether it's considered obsolete. I've contributed to the readline egg before and eventually reached the conclusion that I'm better off developing my own with a different, incompatible API.

Re: [Chicken-users] NULL in calls to C functions with bind

Hi Christoph, I think that NULL should be correct and work - since you're creating a pointer object to address 0. However, the FFI has a convenience for null-pointers: you can pass in #f instead. That's easier and requires one less GC object. It's mentioned in the manual on c-pointer foreign

[Chicken-users] is the readline egg dead?

I'm a newbie on a x84_64-pc-linux-gnu. $ chicken-install readline -sudo Server error: Error: [Server] no such extension or version "readline" #f Server error: Error: [Server] no such extension or version "readline" #f Error: extension or version not found: "readline" TIA -- Marco Maggi

Re: [Chicken-users] is the readline egg dead?

Hi Marco, It seems the readline egg isn't available for CHICKEN 5. You could try [breadline] or [linenoise]? [breadline]: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/breadline [linenoise]: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/linenoise I don't know about the status on the C4 readline egg, whether a C5

[Chicken-users] Announce: Hypergiant and OpenGL eggs are available for CHICKEN 5!

Hello CHICKEN users! Today I finished porting and publishing the last eggs of the OpenGL suite! I am now the maintainer of the CHICKEN 5 version of the following eggs, which are, as of today, all available from chicken-install: - epoxy - soil - glfw3 - gl-math - gl-utils - gl-type - glls -

Re: [Chicken-users] is the readline egg dead?

Hi all, there is a very easy to use and simple alternative to readline and consorts: rlwrap It's an external package and thas has the advantage to be usable not only with chicken, but with every program without readline support. Cheers Juergen -- Dr. Juergen Lorenz Gruener Weg 27 29471 Gartow

[Chicken-users] installing breadline Was: is the readline egg dead?

Kristian Lein-Mathisen wrote: > Hi Marco, > It seems the readline egg isn't available for CHICKEN 5. > You could try [breadline] or [linenoise]? > [breadline]: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/breadline > [linenoise]: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/linenoise Thanks! I am trying

Re: [Chicken-users] installing breadline Was: is the readline egg dead?

Hello Marco, > Thanks! I am trying breadline, but, after a number of other eggs are > installed I get this error, most likely because I still have GNU > Readline 6.3 on my Slackware64 14.2 installation (which is the latest > Slackware, sigh!): Thanks for the bug report. I picked

Re: [Chicken-users] installing breadline Was: is the readline egg dead?

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 05:29:44PM +0100, Vasilij Schneidermann wrote: > Hello Marco, > > > Thanks! I am trying breadline, but, after a number of other eggs are > > installed I get this error, most likely because I still have GNU > > Readline 6.3 on my Slackware64 14.2 installation

[Chicken-users] repository pathname, location and customisation, lib64

Ciao, I would really like to customise the location of the installed eggs for my Slackware64 on a x86_64-pc-linux-gnu running Chicken 5.0.0. First I go to the Wiki[1] and try this: $ csi -p "(repository-path)" Error: unbound variable: repository-path Call history: