Re: [Chicken-users] ssax troubles

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:16:50AM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> This is basically identical to the issue described here: 
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2009-10/msg00070.html
> 
> In that thread, the maintainer (I assume) of the ssax egg offers a patch to 
> the ssax-chicken.scm file, but that patch doesn't seem to have made it into 
> the ssax egg itself

I'm not the maintainer of ssax.  Actually, it has no official maintainer,
it's more or less a "community effort" :)  I guess this fix slipped
through the cracks.
Anyway, I've applied the patch by Taylor to the trunk version and pushed
a new 5.0.6 release which should appear shortly.

Thanks for reporting the bug (again)!

> (though I'm not sure how to verify that, since I can't seem to figure out how 
> to grab the source for an egg and install it manually).

Unless otherwise stated on the egg's wiki page, most eggs are kept
in the eggs repository in subversion.  You can check this out via

https://code.call-cc.org/svn/chicken-eggs/release/4/ssax/trunk

If you have no account, you can use the "anonymous" username with an
empty password to get read-only access.

This information can also be found on http://code.call-cc.org/ which is
linked from the wiki and the main site.

> I guess my broader question is: Is ssax busted?  I'm basically trying to do 
> the same thing as the person in the earlier thread (i.e. run some example 
> code).

It's not really busted; it's just not as well-maintained as most other eggs.

Cheers,
Peter
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