[Chicken-users] Request for eggs-account

[foobar]

Hi,

may i request an account for the eggs-repository in order to provide the
following extension?

DICT:

dict is a wrapper around libdict
[ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict/libdict-0.9.tar.gz] and
provides an api for the dict client/server-protocoll. It wrapps libdict
at a very
low level thus providing access to the internals of libdict. Additionally
it provides a higher-level-api that exports a hand-full of procedures needed
to connect to a dict-server and use it.
I'm not sure whether it is a good idea to wrap the c-library.
Maybe it is an option to turn the code into pure scheme in the long run.
Any comments on that are very much appreciated.

I'm currently in testing- and documentation-phase. If the egg is wanted
i'll release an initial version as soon as this phase is finished.

The egg is currently named "dict", any namesuggestions are very welcome.


As a sidenote, this extension came into existence because i worked (and
am working)
on a wordnet-binding for chicken, and during a conversation about this
extension, someone requested a possibility to interact with dict-servers.
So there is a wordnet-binding in progress and i'm willing to eggify it
if it is wanted.


Furthermore i wanted to ask whether there is interest in a simple system to
address constraint satisfaction problems? I've implemented a very simple
system on top of the amb-library. At the very moment it provides
both, a syntax-version for problems when you know the variables at
compile-time
and another version that allows to process variables only known at runtime.
It is still in development and no actions have been taken to introduce
methods
to narrow the search-space such as providing interfaces to heuristics for
e.g. node or arc-consistency. That may follow in the future, beside some
other improvements.


greets