Re: [Chicken-users] SQLite and opengl eggs don't compile "out of the box" with latest release

[Kon Lovett]

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On Jun 9, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Matthew Welland wrote:

> The fix of course is to use the latest snapshot which works fine.  
> However for
> someone trying chicken for the first time that is probably  
> frustrating.

I agree. The combination of a decent compiler, good platform support,  
large library, excellent C-family support, and open source is  
tempting to Scheme users. But the lack of a stable environment is  
frustrating.

Chicken is undergoing fairly rapid development, a good thing. It is  
also obsoleting the existing distributions scattered around, a bad  
thing. While some eggs are backward compatible, some are not, and  
some don't use the new features at all. (This is a small problem as  
the check-imports feature can help find serious bugs.)

This situation is well known to the author, Felix. However, I  
wouldn't expect a direct fix soon, as there are about 220 eggs, and a  
lot of authors.

I think what will happen is an update of the existing eggs to the  
latest feature set (this has happened in the past), then the creation  
of a set of platform specific distributions.

The platform specific stuff is also in flux. Windows is being worked  
on heavily. MacOS X as well.

I know Felix wants to get to a stable state but I doubt such a  
situation will emerge before Aug.

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