Re: What the best way to support hot reloading in Chicken?

You're correct on Schematra. I just removed nrepl as a dep in the latest
version. I was waiting to push it with CHICKEN6 support but I think it
might take me longer. I'll push a new version that cleans up the path later
today.

Best,
Rolando

On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 11:00 AM Kristian Lein-Mathisen via Chicken-users <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> All the amazing tooling you've built, Mario! I can see these are the
> dependencies:
>
> - lsp-server
> - schematra: https://github.com/schematra/schematra/issues/11
>
> I'm surprised to see it being used as a hard dependency. Schematra doesn't
> seem to be using it, and I hope there is a way to take it out of lsp-server
> too perhaps.
>
> I really think the nrepl->tcprepl is a good idea as I suspect a lot
> confusion comes from Clojures nrepl feature/protocol and people think it's
> the same.
>
> I will see if I can add a note in nrepl's documentation regarding its
> intended use.
>
> Sorry for hijacking your thread, Srayan,
> and thanks for your remarks Marios
> K.
>
>
> and the rest are transitive dependencies.
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2026, 22:25 Mario Domenech Goulart <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kristian,
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:11:08 +0200 Kristian Lein-Mathisen <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for pointing that out. So renaming eggs is non-trivial, which is
>> fair. But I'd be surprised, honestly, if any eggs
>> > actually depend on nrepl - it's just a debugging/development tool,
>> hopefully useful in the process of writing an egg, but
>> > not more.
>>
>> Actually at least 5 eggs depend on nrepl according to
>>
>> http://salmonella-linux-x86-64.call-cc.org/chicken-5/gcc/linux/x86-64/2026/08/12/salmonella-report/ranks/rev-deps.html
>>
>> > I'll happily keep two separate branches, one for C5 and one for C6.
>> I'll look into this when I get around to porting my
>> > eggs.
>>
>> Not sure if you are talking about two separate branches for nrepl or
>> about your eggs that depend on nrepl.  If the former, then having two
>> branches for nrepl egg won't solve the problem.  The issue affects
>> _users_ of nrepl.
>>
>> For example, consider an egg which depends on nrepl and works unmodified
>> on both C5 and C6 (not a very unusual case -- often C5 eggs require very
>> little modifications, if any, to work with C6) .  If you rename nrepl to
>> tcprepl, the egg which depend on it will need two .egg files: the C5 one
>> to specify the dependency on nprepl; and the C6 one to specify the
>> dependency on tcprepl.  chicken-install will only look for
>> <egg-name>.egg, so the user of your egg will have to branch.
>>
>> All the best.
>> Mario
>> --
>> https://parenteses.org/mario
>>
>