Re: from Zhu Chongkai

Chongkai Zhu <mrmathematica-/[email protected]> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:30:37 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.plt.schematics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank you for the introduction. 

Now I feel that I am ready, what should I do next? 
  
======= At 2005-02-14, 23:53:50 Francisco Solsona
wrote: =======


>Hello Zhu,
>
>I bet Noel means well.  I know we really need help
with the SRFI
>support, PLT is getting far behind other scheme
implementations with
>respect to srfis.
>
>So, welcome aboard!
>
>And just let me tell you some things about the SRFI
stuff:
>
>1. At the beginning we shipped our ported SRFIs via
.plt package, as
>an external library.
>2. A couple of versions ago, it was decided that
SRFIs were important,
>and so the whole library was incorporated to the main
PLT tree.
>3. I tried for a little while to keep both CVS trees
synchronized.  It
>was hell, so I'm not doing that anymore.  This means
that the SRFI
>library at schematics is NOT the latest.
>
>How about if we work like this:
>
>1. When porting and testing a new SRFI: we use the
schematics CVS tree
>exclusively.
>2. Once we are happy with the port,  I can insert it
into the PLT CVS
>tree, and it will become visible to the world.
>
>One thing we weren't doing at Schematics, but it is
very important for
>the PLT is testing.  They have their own test
platform, and it would
>be nice to add tests for the new SRFIs.
>
>One other thing we must do is to "port" the SRFI
document itself.
>This isn't hard, because we can include the html
itself, but first we
>must add name#tags, and create a couple of index
files.  The index
>files are used by the help desk.
>
>does any of these make any sense?
>
>best regards,
>--Francisco
>

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Sincerely,
Zhu Chongkai


		
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