Re: [Chicken-users] PS-tk documentation missing?

[felix winkelmann]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Matthew Welland <address@hidden> wrote:
> I noticed the "tk" egg minutes after sending my previous email. The tk egg
> seems to have nice documentation and it works on my Nokia n800. However the
> PS-tk egg does not:
>
> ============snip============
> Nokia-N800-50-2:~# csi
>
> CHICKEN
> (c)2008 The Chicken Team
> (c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann
> Version 3.3.1 - linux-unix-gnu-arm      [ dload ptables applyhook ]
> SVN rev. 11106  compiled 2008-07-13 on debian (Linux)
>
> #;1> (use PS-tk)
> ; loading /var/lib/chicken/3/PS-tk.so ...
> Error: (apply) parameter limit exceeded
>
>        Call history:
>
>        <syntax>                (use PS-tk)
>        <syntax>                (##core#require-extension (quote PS-tk))
>        <syntax>                (begin (begin (##sys#require (quote PS-tk)))
> (##core#undefined))
>        <syntax>                (begin (##sys#require (quote PS-tk)))
>        <syntax>                (##sys#require (quote PS-tk))
>        <syntax>                (quote PS-tk)
>        <syntax>                (##core#undefined)
>        <eval>          (##sys#require (quote PS-tk))   <--
> =============end===============
>
> What differentiates the two projects? It would be nice to know which one is
> most likely to be supported in the future or to converge on just one tk
> interface for Chicken.
>

You don't have the "manyargs" feature (arm system?), so a generic use
of apply with large argument lists may exceed the argument limit.

PS/tk is built on the original code developed by Wolf-Dieter Busch (which
in turn is based on code by Sven Hartrumpf). PS/tk is newer, but tk is
better adapted for chicken.


cheers,
felix