Re: [Chicken-users] Request for eggs-account

[foobar]

address@hidden schrieb:

> > Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:58:11 -0400, jpb wrote:
> >
> >   
>   
>>> >>> As a sidenote, this extension came into existence because i worked (and
>>> >>> am working)
>>> >>> on a wordnet-binding for chicken, and during a conversation about this
>>> >>> extension, someone requested a possibility to interact with 
>>> >>> dict-servers.
>>> >>> So there is a wordnet-binding in progress and i'm willing to eggify it
>>> >>> if it is wanted.
>>> >>>       
>>>       
>> >> Hum! Very interesting. Well, I would be very happy to see this binding to 
>> >> be
>> >> eggified.
>> >>     
>>     
> >
> >   
>   
Ok, i'll consider this and start a request here, once it is stable enough.

> > +1
> >
> > I assume that your WordNet functions are very portable.
> > Therefore, a snow package (http://snow.iro.umontreal.ca/), which
> > will help several Scheme implementations and not just Chicken,
> > would be a good alternative.
> >
> >   
>   
Well, unfortunately, it wrapps libWN and thus the glue-code is very
chicken-specific.
So unless i implement it in pure scheme, which is currently not an
option for me as a single
developer, it's not  very portable along the different
scheme-implementations.



greets