Re: [Chicken-users] RE: Win32/cygwin dynamic loading

[Felix Winkelmann]

Jonah Beckford wrote:

> also means they must be installable with a standard mechanism (I like
> William Annis' suggestion of something like Python's Distutils or Perl's
> Makefile.PL; I haven't looked at "eggs" yet, but I have a suspicion they
> are for pure Scheme code).

I would like to point out that there are several ways of handling
non-Scheme code: First, the .setup script is really just a source-file
that's `load'ed. Second, the setup-spec.-attribute `(make <commands>)'
allows you to do whatever you like during build/installation time.
And finally, one can still put the egg into a tarball with a proper
configure script and invoke csi -setup in the makefile.
IIRC, Tony has even implemented the configure-script for chickenlib
in Scheme. I like that!


cheers,
felix