[Chicken-janitors] #90: Compiled SLIB support

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#90: Compiled SLIB support
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 Reporter:  tonysidaway        |       Owner:  tonysidaway
     Type:  task               |      Status:  new        
 Priority:  minor              |   Milestone:             
Component:  extensions         |     Version:  4.1.x      
 Keywords:  slib egg compiled  |  
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 I'm working on strategies for integrating SLIB release 3b2 into Chicken as
 a small series of eggs each containing a number of compiled SLIB modules
 packaged as Chicken modules.  As far as possible, existing Chicken code
 that provides SLIB features will be relied on.

 Work to date comprises a SLIB module analyzer that packages a SLIB source
 module as a Chicken module and translates dependencies such as (require
 'FEATURE), (require-if 'compiling 'FEATURE) to the equivalent Chicken
 require-extension, import and so on.  When compiled, the modules work well
 with Chicken 4 and each other.

 Much work still needs to be done particularly in integrating the various
 SLIB macro systems with compiled code.

 Present thinking is that SLIB's catalog system will *not* be supported as,
 with proper treatment, it's made redundant by the egg system which is one
 of Chicken's greatest assets.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.irp.oist.jp/trac/chicken/ticket/90>
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