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Re: [Chicken-users] Documentation problem (eggs tutorial and Extensions
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Jeronimo Pellegrini |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Documentation problem (eggs tutorial and Extensions section from the manual) |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Apr 2010 23:21:26 -0300 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 02:16:24PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> This doesn't really have anything to do with eggs. There was no -j in
> Chicken 3, and in Chicken 4 you use -j <modulename> to create an import
> file for the module named <modulename>.
>
> Since it's good practice (but not required!) to package eggs that
> provide modules, you'll have to add a -j <modulename> in order to make
> it work.
>
> Of course, the semantics of (USE foo) changed so it will try to load foo
> and also import the module foo, you'll run into trouble unless you either
> provide a module or switch to (REQUIRE-LIBRARY foo) which will only load
> the .so file without importing anything.
Ah -- I get it now!
> > It seems that the documentation is for Chicken 3; I am not sure if I
> > understand everything that changed in the compiler since the docs were
> > written, otherwise I'd be happy to help updating the manual and eggs
> > tutorial.
>
> It might have not been updated properly. It's a good idea to add some
> instructions on providing a module to the tutorial. Feel free to add it.
OK.
Thanks a lot, Peter!
J.