Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Convert (most) core units to modules

[Oleg Kolosov]

> On Aug 2, 2015, at 21:33, Evan Hanson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Plain (use extras) works fine. The same with other namespaced modules.
>> 
>> It this a bug or a feature?
> 
> It's the start of a feature. :)
> 
> In other words, no, this isn't expected to work yet. As I mentioned way
> back in February, the library names of the core units are unchanged (in
> fact, the whole user-facing import/require API has remained the same, so
> far). When support for `(import (list style library names))` is added,
> those library names may be updated to match, and you'll be able to do
> what you're trying to do as a side effect. But, that's only just been
> started on at this point.
> 

Oh, I've seen various changes to prefixed names in diff and expected this to 
work somehow. Thanks for the clarification.

By the way, while at it, I have another observation:

During tests '-ignore-repository' option is used everywhere. It looks like the 
right thing to do, but compiler tries to load '*.import.scm' from include paths 
anyway. This works incidentally because they are still laying around in build 
directory. And without this option it always looks in the repository first even 
when CHICKEN_REPOSITORY variable is set. Behavior for searching import 
libraries and libraries themselves differs. This can lead to major pitfalls I 
think.

— 
Regards, Oleg
Art-System