Re: [Chicken-hackers] r7rs modules

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] r7rs modules
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:41:47 +0100

> 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.

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cheers,
felix