Different dialects under the same root

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Revised draft of SRFI 103, 104 David Van Horn (11 Dec 2009 16:03 UTC)

Different dialects under the same root Vitaly Magerya (11 Dec 2009 18:12 UTC)

Re: Different dialects under the same root Derick Eddington (12 Dec 2009 01:48 UTC)

Re: Different dialects under the same root Vitaly Magerya (12 Dec 2009 12:16 UTC)

A utility for renaming old-style file names Derick Eddington (12 Dec 2009 06:20 UTC)

Re: A utility for renaming old-style file names Göran Weinholt (25 Dec 2009 19:37 UTC)

Re: A utility for renaming old-style file names Derick Eddington (26 Dec 2009 22:54 UTC)

Different dialects under the same root Vitaly Magerya 11 Dec 2009 18:04 UTC

> Rename R6RS_LIBRARY_PATH to SCHEME_LIB_PATH, because multiple dialects
> can use this environment variable because they can avoid conflict by
> using different file name extensions.

Derick, this change is problematic. Let's say there are two systems:
Scheme Foo and Scheme Bar, and both of them have library (baz). Aside
from the fact that putting files from different libraries in the same
folder defeats the purpose of folders, we will have conflicts if:

* both implementations of (baz) ship with a README or a LICENSE file;
* both implementations of (baz) ship with main.r6rs-lib which is a stub
  to load implementation-specific code.