Re: [Chicken-hackers] r7rs modules

[Peter Bex]

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.

Cheers,
Peter
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