Re: Chicken SRFI Support wiki page

[noosphere]

By the way, I've set up a git repo where I've put the org file from
which I generate the "Chicken SRFI Support" wiki page (via the
intermediate HTML export) here:

  https://github.com/diamond-lizard/chicken-srfi-support


On Thu 05 Nov 2020 06:33:58 PM -08, noosphere@mailc.net wrote:

> First, here's what I did:
>
>   https://wiki.call-cc.org/srfi-support
>
> Now, here's why I did it:
>
> I've been looking in to porting some unported SRFIs to Chicken recently,
> and wanted to see which SRFIs have already been ported and which were
> still unported.
>
> I found the information about which SRFIs were ported on a number of
> different pages, but not in the most useful format for me (see below).
>
> There was no documentation about which SRFIs had not been ported yet, so
> I had to deduce that on my own by looking at the official SRFI page
> ( https://srfi.schemers.org/ ) and manually diffing it against what
> I could find about which SRFIs have been ported to Chicken.
>
> The most useful Chicken wiki page on which SRFIs were ported was:
>
>   https://wiki.call-cc.org/supported-standards
>
> Unfortunately, the format was not maximally useful to me, because to
> find if some SRFI I was interested in was ported to some Chicken version
> I'd have to perform multiple searches.  Also, I didn't know if it
> was in sync with the list of Eggs (like http://eggs.call-cc.org/5/ ),
> which themselves were on separate pages (one per Chicken version).
> It turns out they weren't quite in sync.
>
> So I decided to put all of this information in to a single table.
>
> The table linked to at the top of this email lists every SRFI,
> its status, which Chicken version it was ported to, and whether
> it is in core for that Chicken version or in an egg.
>
> It's basically much the same as the info on the Supported Standards
> wiki page, but displayed in a different (to me more useful) format,
> along with all of the yet unported SRFIs and their status,
> where you can see at a glance which Chicken version a given SRFI
> has been ported to.
>
> This is not quite a complete replacement for the Supported Standards
> page, because it doesn't list non-SRFI standard support (like R7RS).
>
> Because of that and because I'm new here, I didn't want to just
> overwrite the Supported Standards page with this one, nor did I want
> to make any major revisions to it.
>
> I thought I'd email you all about it here and ask you what you think.
>
> Then maybe we could link to it from the Supported Standards page?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>   --Sergey
>
>
> PS: I created the table manually in org-mode, then exported it to HTML,
> cut the table out of the HTML file and pasted it in to the wiki,
> which mercifully supported the HTML table format that org exported to.