Re: [Chicken-users] srfi-19

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Dave

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:02:41 -0400 (EDT) David N Murray <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm a noob to Scheme & Chicken, so forgive me if this is really trivial,
> but I'm struggling mightily.
>
> # csi
> CHICKEN
> (c)2008-2009 The Chicken Team
> (c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann
> Version 4.1.0 - SVN rev. 15292
> openbsd-unix-gnu-x86-64 [ 64bit manyargs dload ptables applyhook ]
> compiled 2009-08-28 on kili.jsbsystems.com (OpenBSD)
>
> #;1> (require-extension srfi-19)
>
> Error: (import) during expansion of (import ...) - cannot import from
> undefined module: srfi-19
> #;1> ^D
>
> # chicken-install srfi-19
> retrieving ...
> connecting to host "chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk", port 80 ...
> requesting "/henrietta.cgi?name=srfi-19" ...
> [snip]
> reading files ...
> Error: [Server] no such extension or version
> "srfi-19"
> #f
>
> Google finds me:
> http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/srfi-19.html
> where I can download the raw .egg.   I figure out that the .egg is just a
> .tgz, untar it and based on this
> (http://www.irp.oist.jp/trac/chicken/ticket/36) I figure out how to
> install the resulting directory.  chicken-install is cool, in that it
> figures out the dependencies and downloads them, if they're there.
>
> I'm back at the exact same point for misc-extn and srfi-29 (not in the
> repository) and lookup-tables is found, but the install complains about
> missing files (type-errors.html, type-checks.html and
> conditions.import.scm).
>
> Am I completely missing something here?

The SRFI-19 egg is for chicken-3, the previous major version of Chicken.
The current Chicken major version is 4 and required all the eggs to be
ported to it.  The egg for SRFI-19 has not been ported to chicken-4 yet.

Best wishes.
Mario