Re: [Chicken-hackers] r7rs modules

[Alex Shinn]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 05:38:59PM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote:
> I think this can break much more easily than you think.
> Consider (html parser) would conflict with the html-parser egg.

I totally agree; it is clear as day this has the potential to wreak havoc.

> Slashes are much less likely to conflict, and map well to
> the actual directory layout that the files will be distributed as.

Except nobody does this currently, and I have no idea whether
chicken-install can handle that, and whether the module loading
system can handle this; currently everything is just dumped in
lib/chicken/N, so this is possibly a rather invasive change.

Then "." may be most appropriate, but I encourage you

to think a little more about this before implementing it.

It's trivial to make chicken-install support R7RS libraries

with a define-library form, no matter what mapping you

choose.

The next desirable level of integration is supporting use

of the original R7RS source from csi.  If you want to

contribute to the upstream source of an R7RS library you

want to be able to edit it and quickly test changes from

chicken without installing, and often without compiling.

If you choose "/" as the separator I suspect this will

just work.  If you choose another separator you need

to add hooks so that csi knows how to map the library

name to the equivalent with /'s.

-- 

Alex