Re: [Chicken-users] S_IFMT constants

[felix winkelmann]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 16 Jan 2009, at 10:45 am, felix winkelmann wrote:
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>> Everything should be put into eggs. At some stage we have to
>> strip down the posixunix and put everything not needed for
>> the core system into eggs.
>
> Ok! Pending that, how shall I proceed in the short term?
>
> 1) Write a "posix-extensions" egg that contains my little extras?
> 2) Steal posixunix.scm and posixwin.scm and make them into eggs, with
> my additions in, so people can install them to 'overwrite' the system
> posix unit, and then when there is no system posix unit, it's now
> available as eggs?
> 3) As per (2) but just have a posix egg that contains some magic to
> build the appropriate version?
> 4) None of the above - just put my posix extension hacks into my own
> source code for now, and deal with this issue later, when the effort
> to split posix out into an egg happens?
>

1)


cheers,
felix