[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add chicken.platform module (partially)

[Peter Bex]

Hi all,

Attached are two patches which move some stuff around and create the
chicken.platform module.

The commits should speak for themselves.  While working on the patch,
I noticed that provide and provided? are not really related to feature
identifiers as such, and more to code loading, so I think this should
end up in the chicken.load module (I've updated the core-libraries-reorg
wiki page accordingly).  If y'all disagree, please let me know.

I've also noticed that get-host-name is a little tricky on Windows due to
the stupid Winsock API requiring one to call WSAStart, but that's okay.
However, system-information is really quite hairy, large and OS-specific
The docs simply state it calls the UNIX uname() function, but looking at
it from a higher level it makes sense that this kind of platform
information is available from chicken.platform, so I think it's okay to
have something of the sort in there.  But maybe the API should be
reconsidered?

For example, we also define "machine-type" in chicken.platform, which  to
me is a bit confusing: how does machine-type differ from the "processor"
entry in system-information's list?  And why do we need the hostname
to be in both get-host-name and system-information?  On Windows it's
identical, but perhaps on Unix, gethostname() can return a different
name than uname()'s nodename?

Cheers,
Peter

0001-Add-chicken.platform-module-incomplete.patch
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0002-Move-some-procedures-from-chicken.eval-to-chicken.pl.patch
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