Re: [Chicken-users] getting exact chicken version during compile-time

[felix winkelmann]

On 4/5/07, foobar <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i just tested the new c-string-list of the current head-revision
> and it works like a charme. The problem that arises now, is
> that i want to provide a workaround-implementation for
> the current stable-release. For that purpose i need to
> conditionally select one of the implementation during
> compilation, depending on the chicken-version used.
>
> Is there a way to accomplish this?

(chicken-version) gives you the current version as a string,
so you could check (with string>=?), for example inside a macro:

(define-macro (with-chicken v . body)
 (if (string>=? (chicken-version) "2.608")
     `(begin ,@body)
     '(void) ) )



cheers,
felix