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Re: Having multiple Schemes supporting SRFI-22 installed on the same system felix (16 Aug 2004 14:41 UTC)

Re: Having multiple Schemes supporting SRFI-22 installed on the same system felix 16 Aug 2004 14:40 UTC

Michael Sperber wrote:
>>>>>>"felix" == felix  <xxxxxx@call-with-current-continuation.org> writes:
>
>
> felix> How about "officially" allowing implementation-specific aliases, like:
>
> felix> scheme-r5rs.sisc
> felix> scheme-srfi-0.chicken
>
> felix> etc.
>
> felix> ?
>
> I don't think there's anything forbidding it.

Ok, but perhaps a recommendation would be useful, because:

>
> I don't understand the problem you're trying to solve: Presumably, the
> scripts interpreters are all pretty much equivalent.  Just pick any
> one.
>

So, what happens if two Scheme implementations choose to install
scheme-r5rs in the same location, say, /usr/local/bin ???

cheers,
felix