Re: [Chicken-users] Who wants to lead Chicken projets?

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Peter Keller wrote:
> A "cradle to grave" metacompiler. 
>   

My pet peeve about programming languages is they typically don't specify 
their build systems.  So for all the type safety people say they're 
achieving in their language, it is ruined by haphazard shell interfaces 
on multiple operating systems.  I'm not sure what can be done about the 
problem, only that it is a problem.  CMake is a better in-practice 
solution for build problems than anything I'm likely to do R&D on in the 
near future.  It's better because it has a large, responsive development 
team, a large community, and people supporting it.  KDE has converted to 
it, so when KDE 4.0 ships I expect CMake to proliferate.  CMake is 
dealing with a lot of practical, boring build problems.  It doesn't deal 
with everything, but it deals with vastly more things than one would 
dream up.  That's because when people run into things it can't do, they 
tell the CMake developers about it, and feature requests get put in 
their bug tracker.

> If anything, all of these ideas should be recorded somewhere and they
> should act like seeds for people to look over and see what they'd like
> to water.
>   

I will create a "Chicken project leaders" wiki page.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every