[Chicken-users] embedded-test and format-compiler ported to chicken 4

[Alejandro Forero Cuervo]

OK, with great help from many of you, —for which I'm very grateful—, I
managed to get the format-compiler and the embedded-test eggs to work
in Chicken 4.5.0.  chicken-install can now correctly download and
install them.

The embedded-test egg provides a simple interface to define unit tests
for procedures directly before the procedures themselves are defined.
There's more information about it here:

  http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/embedded-test

The format-compiler egg, based somewhat on the format-modular egg,
compiles format strings according to specifications of supported
escape sequences.  It provides a format function, implementing Common
Lisp's format interface.  format-compiler is not yet complete, there
is a non-trivial amount of escape sequences that I have yet to get
supported (I would estimate about 25% of the work remains).  I also
have yet to modify it's interface to make it easier to extend it.
There's more information about it here:

  http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/format-compiler

The authoritative source for both eggs are the aforementioned URLs.
The entire code is embedded in those pages and all the files making up
the egg are automatically generated from them by Svnwiki.  As I've
mentioned in the past, this is my experiment for a wiki-based open
source literate programming framework for Scheme.  We'll see how it
goes.

In the course of the next few weeks I expect to continue porting my
eggs from Chicken 3 to this framework and to Chicken 4.  We'll see how
it goes.

Thanks for all your help.  Note that the meta and setup files are
entirely autogenerated: if you have any suggestions to improve them,
feel free to send them my way.

Alejo.
http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/