From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16581 invoked by alias); 10 Oct 2008 09:30:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 16568 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Oct 2008 09:30:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:29:52 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 3ADAA6D430F; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:29:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:30:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ITP] chicken-3.4.0-1 Message-ID: <20081010092942.GF9289@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-10/txt/msg00027.txt.bz2 On Oct 6 18:04, Nathan Thern wrote: > 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." Packaging looks good. I've uploaded it into the distro and noted you as the official maintainer in http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint Please send an announcement mail to cygwin-announce according to http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat