Re: What is a "mes-compatible" Scheme?

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Sage Gerard writes:

Hi!

> I'm researching the scope of work required to use Racket instead of
> Guile for Mes.

Ah, that may be not so straightforward.  Note that Guile is only needed
and used during development.  For a bootstrap build, Guile is not
required.

What use case do you have in mind for Racket?

> What specifically is a "mes-compatible Scheme"? That term does not
> appear again in the page.

A "mes-compatible" Scheme would be either a recent version of mes itself
(possibly pre-installed) or guile.

Currently, mes uses a "define-module" macro to ignore the guile module
system and uses a shadow include tree of "*.mes" files that use
"mes-use-module" commands, see e.g.

    mes/module/mescc/mescc.mes

Also, mes uses a guile-compatibility module

    mes/module/mes/guile.mes

Greetings,
Janneke

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