[Fluxus] compile problem on linux

[plutek]

From: Kassen <signal.automatique at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:01:30 +0100

> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 09:13:25PM -0500, plutek wrote:
>> ...and i'm also wondering why anything related to a particular scheme environment needs to be a *dependency* of fluxus... can't we just feed fluxus scheme code by whatever method we like? or am i missing something about the fluxus dataflow?...
> 
> Personally I don't see why FLuxus couldn't listen to Std-in so we
> could pipe stuff into it. IMHO redoing the editor in Scheme should be
> higher priority but I think we could.
> 
> What should be theoretically possible would be a spawned task in
> FLuxus that would use system calls to monitor a named pipe, then call
> "(eval my-string)" on the result. I suspect that such system calls are
> blocking though, making them less fun.
> 
> You might be interested in using drFlux instead, running that in a
> screen session and sending your text there. That works, though it's
> less pleasant when you missed a closing bracket.
> 
> Hope that helps you in the right direction.

thanks, kas!

interesting ideas, and i may take a look at drFlux. still, i guess my basic question is why fluxus (this nice, light, and nimble tool) needs the whole big machinery of racket before we can even compile it...

cheers!
.pltk.