Re: [Chicken-users] Proposed procedure movement in Chicken 4

[Matthew Welland]

Replying to myself - I just needed to use require instead of use.

I'll test a few other apps and if it goes well start moving to 4.1.

On Saturday 12 September 2009 09:52:51 am Matthew Welland wrote:
> On Friday 11 September 2009 04:39:43 pm you wrote:
> > 2009/9/10 Matthew Welland <address@hidden>
> >
> > > Seconded. I gave some code of mine to someone with instructions to
> > > install chicken to compile it. He said it doesn't work. Oops. Yeah,
> > > You gotta use 3.3. Ok, how do I get it. Uh, dunno. He now thinks
> > > chicken is a POS. My fault for not testing my directions but annoying
> > > none the less. I know you guys are stretched thin but please consider
> > > making going *back* to 3.3 or similar easy and obvious from the
> > > chicken home page. 4.X should be marked as experimental until 80 or
> > > 90% of the eggs work IMHO.
> > >
> > >
> > > In other words 4.X is exciting and all but some of us are using
> > > chicken to get things done and can't afford exciting ...
> >
> > Many eggs are not necessary anymore (like the myriad of html-generation
> > ones, with sxml-transforms). Where did you get your 80% figure?
>
> Out of my a.. of course.
>
> > You could also provide a list of eggs that are missing for *your
> > usage*. Or even try porting some.
>
> I gave 4.1 another shot and now it looks like the eggs I need are there.
> Nice. A quick grep (listed below) though my stuff finds 40 or so eggs to
> check. That'll have to wait for another day but you are probably right
> that most are already available.
>
> However it looks like I have some work to do to get my homegrown eggs
> working with 4.1. Perhaps I have to turn them into real modules? That
> will also have to wait for another day: I'll be sticking with 3.3 for
> another month or so but it looks like the transition to 4.X is less
> painful than the impression I got from the NEWS page. Kudos and thanks to
> all involved.
>
> address@hidden:~/data/projects/scheme/solarcollector$ make
> csc sol.scm
>
> Warning: re-importing already imported syntax: foreign-declare
> Syntax error (import): cannot import from undefined module
>
> geolib
>
> Expansion history:
>
> <syntax> (##core#undefined)
> <syntax> (##core#undefined)
> <syntax> (##core#begin (##core#begin (##core#begin (##sys#require
> (quote geolib))) (import geolib)) (##core#b......
> <syntax> (##core#begin (##core#begin (##sys#require (quote geolib)))
> (import geolib))
> <syntax> (##core#begin (##sys#require (quote geolib)))
> <syntax> (##sys#require (quote geolib))
> <syntax> (quote geolib)
> <syntax> (import geolib) <--
>
> Error: shell command terminated with non-zero exit status 17920:
> /tmp/local/bin/chicken sol.scm -output-file sol.c
>
> > --Stephen
> >
> > programmer, n:
> > A red eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate
> > monsters.
>
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