Re: Chicken R7RS roadmap

[felix . winkelmann]

> Can we get an update on Chicken's R7RS-small roadmap, and in particular,
> what's the stance on accepting it in core? Yesterday we found three
> volunteers on #chicken who'd be willing to put work into it.

There seems to be a misunderstanding regarding R7RS support in CHICKEN:

The egg provides at least 95% of what R7RS requires. The fact that it is an egg
should not be seen as a disadvantage, what needs to be in the core system has
mostly been already added. The remaining differences are minor and static
linking should also solve most deployment issues (regarding in-core vs as-egg).

But I will update the "r7rs-tasks" page and try to clarify remaining issues.
Collaboration to address open tasks is of course more than welcome!

(As a side note let me add that my recently created (but mostly ignored) "csm"
tool provides additional support for easily building R7RS projects)


felix