[Chicken-users] Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

So, I'm contemplating bootstrapping.  If you didn't have a chicken 
compiler already, how would you bootstrap?  Where is the "primal" 
chicken?  There's something I find deeply odd about the circularity of 
tarballs and darcs.  I'd rather derive chicken from first principles.

On a more pragmatic level, I'm trying to decide what a bootstrap ala 
CMake should look like.  The autoconf bootstrap looks awful.  Buncha 
directories and copying and stuff.  I think if I stare at this long 
enough The Right Way will come to me though.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every