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Re: [ITP] chicken-3.4.0-1


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


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