On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Eric Merritt wrote:
As for the availability of more SRFIs, I was talking to Guillaume Germain about this and he seems to also have a number of srfi's ported to gambit. From what he says they need a bit of clean up and packaging but that can be done. I plan to port, at the very least, two other srfi's (13 and 44) to gambit myself as well.
And here it is: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~germaing/srfi-pack-0.1.tar.gz
Here is the related README with more information: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~germaing/srfi-pack-0.1-README
As Eric said, this still need some work to be really useful. Currently this is mostly a repackaging of various SRFIs' reference implementations, up to SRFI-55. Since a lot of them use syntax-rules, you lose source code location information when using it. Also, it's not up-to-date.
Perhaps its time to start thinking about a repository of third-party code ported to gambit. Provided with some packaging and namespace guidelines, I have little doubt it would fill up reasonably quickly. If nothing else it could go up on sourceforge.
I think we could put that repository on Gambit's web page. And as you say, some packaging guidelines should be established. Something like Chicken's "Eggs" and chicken-setup would be a great thing to have.
Guillaume