[ITP] chicken-3.4.0-1

Nathan Thern nthern@gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 23:05:00 GMT 2008


Despite not being an official package, chicken (a scheme compiler and
interpreter) has compiled OTOB on cygwin for several years now. I
think it would make a good addition to the distro.

Version 2.3 is currently in Debian stable [1]. Version 3.2 is in
testing [2]. Version 3.4.0 is 2 incremental upgrades beyond what is in
lenny, but there have been no significant changes in functionality or
architecture. Also, the Debian packages are needlessly divided into
bin/dev/lib packages. Chicken is small and is intended for
development. It is best kept as a single package.

[1] http://packages.debian.org/etch/chicken-bin
    http://packages.debian.org/etch/libchicken-dev
    http://packages.debian.org/etch/libchicken0
[2] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/chicken-bin
    http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libchicken-dev
    http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libchicken3

Files:
http://www.liquid.spod.org/~nthern/cygwin/release/chicken/chicken-3.4.0-1-src.tar.bz2
http://www.liquid.spod.org/~nthern/cygwin/release/chicken/chicken-3.4.0-1.tar.bz2
http://www.liquid.spod.org/~nthern/cygwin/release/chicken/setup.hint

category: Devel Interpreters
requires: cygwin libpcre0
sdesc: "A practical and portable Scheme system"
ldesc: "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."

regards,
Nate Thern



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