On 2012-01-19, at 5:45 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 06:35:38PM +0300, Mikael wrote:
>> 2011/10/14 Matthew Koichi Grimes <
mkg@cs.nyu.edu>
>>
>>> As for Black Hole, one can argue that it should be kept as a separate
>>> package, but there's nothing in that argument that says it can't be included
>>> with the default Gambit installation. I would say the same for the SRFI's
>>> floating around in Snow and Dumping Grounds. I would like for them to be
>>> included by default, and be kept "separable" if that's something the user
>>> cares about.
>>>
>>> Such "batteries inculded" installations are nice because they encourage
>>> exploratory programming by lowering the barrier to trying out new features
>>> (e.g. SRFI's). They also lower the adoption barrier for Gambit as a whole,
>>> by lessening fears that every little thing is going to be some obscure
>>> installation chore. This is particularly important for non-mainstream
>>> languages, which, with some justification, bear the stigma of being a pain
>>> to set up.
>
> Any chance the v4.6.4 prebuilts are batteries-included in this sense?