[Chicken-hackers] Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken 2.41 for Debian stable (3.1)

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Ivan Raikov wrote:
>   I apologize for the delayed response -- the mail server at my
> university went down yesterday evening. To answer your question, I
> didn't want to create a package without up-to-date documentation for
> purely aesthetical reasons -- I just felt that the package would be
> incomplete without the Texinfo documentation. I will try the same
> build scripts on Chicken 2.5, and I'll let you know if they work with
> it. I still much prefer to have the documentation included.
>   

Felix made a decision to stop providing Texinfo documentation.  Perhaps 
you should talk to him about reinstating it, and helping with that?  
I've had my own issues with "how easy is it to build a distro with 
docs?" now that everything is going wiki-oriented.  I'm not exactly up 
on it now... don't really want to be, either.  I'd help patch the CMake 
build any way it needs to be done, but I don't want to drop what I'm 
doing and chase this problem.

What am I worried about right now?  Well, I'm fed up with XEmacs, and I 
don't like Eclipse either.  When I try to use MinGW with it, it just 
doesn't work, and I'm tired of chasing broken crap projects.  Eclipse is 
fine for the things people use it for, actually quite good, but it 
doesn't look like it's a powerhouse of MinGW compatibility.  So I'm 
looking at various open source MinGW IDEs, with an eye to integrating 
Chicken and CMake support.  Currently I'm looking at Ultimate++ as the 
guinea pig. 

>     The description in the control file is probably left over from the
> 1.6x days, when the Debian package was initially created, and I'm
> guessing the description was copied from the original project
> description. Feel free to improve it :-) In fact, it would probably
> make sense to add the debian directory to the main Chicken SVN
> repository, and make improvements to it there.
>   

Yeah, I'd need to see it in Darcs to bother with it.  But, I cannot be a 
Debian maintainer.  I have no Linux and don't plan to have one any time 
soon.  I don't feel good about checking anything into Darcs without 
testing, so I'll leave that to someone with the means and gumption to do it.

I would simply lift Chicken's description from the homepage:

"CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. CHICKEN 
produces portable, efficient C, supports almost all of the current 
Scheme language standard, R5RS and includes many enhancements and 
extensions. CHICKEN runs on MacOS X, Windows, and many Unix flavours."


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every