Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken not production quality?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:

Hello Alex,

Welcome aboard. :-)

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:22:54 -0300 "Alex Queiroz" <address@hidden> wrote:

  

     I'm new to Scheme in general. I've been studying with PLT Scheme
but I'm now looking for a system to develop real applications. I've
found Chicken and was impressed seeing how easy it is to make native
applications. Nevertheless, the description of the Debian Chicken
package contains:

"CHICKEN is a Scheme compiler which compiles a subset of R5RS into C.
It uses the ideas presented in Baker's paper "Cheney on the MTA", and
is small and easily extendable, although not a production quality or
high-performance Scheme system."

     Is this right? Why Chicken is not considered production quality?
    

That description is old. Take a look at:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2006-12/msg00008.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2006-12/msg00015.html

  

address@hidden@#$#!! we had a conversation about removing this errant text from the Debian package.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2006-12/msg00013.html
I guess it got lost in the shuffle.  Well at least now we have a bugtracker, so I'll make an entry.  I suggested we simply lift Chicken's description from the homepage:

"CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. CHICKEN produces portable, efficient C, supports almost all of the current Scheme language standard, R5RS and includes many enhancements and extensions. CHICKEN runs on MacOS X, Windows, and many Unix flavours."


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every