Re: [Chicken-users] SRFI-42 and Importing in Chicken 4

[felix winkelmann]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 07:16:11PM -0600, Jack Trades wrote:
>> I think I've got it.  So this is the correct way of importing?
>>
>> (require-library srfi-1)
>>
>> (module test (t d)
>>   (import scheme)
>>   (import (prefix srfi-1 lists.))
>>
>>   (define (t aList) (lists.take aList 3))
>>   (define (d aList) (lists.drop aList 3)))
>>
>> However I still can't seem to install srfi-42.  It looks like chicken-setup
>> is trying to get srfi-42 from the Chicken 3 repo?  Admittedly I have no clue
>> what's going on here, or for that matter how to use chicken-setup (still a
>> chicken newb).  Does srfi-42 still require the syntax-case extension?  If so
>> that also gave me errors through chicken-setup.
>
> Looking at the svn repos it seems that srfi-42 isn't ported to 4 yet.
> Feel free to help out porting it :)
>
> I'm not sure if chicken-setup is still the preferred way to install
> eggs. I think Felix wrote a new tool, but I haven't tried it out yet
> because chicken-setup still works fine for me (but I install from the
> subversion tree, not from the http repos)
>

chicken-setup does not work with chicken 4 - you have to use
"chicken-install". And yes, SRFI-42 is not yet ported.


cheers,
felix