Re: [Chicken-hackers] Big Chicken?

[Oleg Kolosov]

On 05 Mar 2015, at 00:16, Daniel Leslie <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I've been working on improving editor support for Chicken lately. With the 
> (laudable) efforts to remove units from core underway it struck me that there 
> may be opportunity for improvement in the other direction.
> 
> While reducing Chicken core to its essential components is desirable I would 
> like to think that the Chicken distribution, which contains more than core, 
> would be somewhat of a 'batteries included' package. At least insofar as what 
> is common to package with language distributions these days. IE, a powerful 
> debugger, a utility to fetch documentation, and a powerful set of tools to 
> explore the language within the REPL.
> 
> With that in mind, and acknowledging that perhaps it's a little self-serving, 
> I would like to propose that the following Eggs be shipped within the 
> standard Chicken distribution:
>       • apropos
>       • chicken-doc
>       • trace
> Any thoughts? Or is this out of the question?
> 
> -Dan
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Hello. I plan to make Windows installer with the parts of the 
https://github.com/bazurbat/chicken-eggs included which will compile 
successfully with the MSVC.

In theory it should be straightforward to pack everything into tar.gz, but 
various interesting eggs have dependencies on system libraries - building and 
testing all this on different Linux flavours can be quite a pain. We can avoid 
the issue by providing Docker image with everything set up. Some modern 
language distributions use this approach (Go, Ruby) - but it might be not as 
convenient to work with. Maybe this is not what you want.

-- 
Regards, Oleg
Art System