Nausicaa is a project mainly written in Scheme, it's free.
collection of libraries for R6RS Scheme supporting Ikarus, Larceny, Mosh, Petite Chez, Vicare and Ypsilon
Nausicaa
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Your library will be assimilated,
syntax errors are futile.This is a distribution of Scheme language libraries for R6RS Scheme implementations. Currently it attempts to support Mosh, Petite Chez, Racket, Vicare (a fork of Ikarus) and Ypsilon.
If you are wondering why this distribution is named Nausicaa, you may enjoy reading the manga "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" by Master Hayao Miyazaki, or watch its movie.
You may also find interesting what the crazy guys of the OpenSky project are trying to do:
<http://www.petworks.co.jp/~hachiya/opensky/>Each project in this distribution has its own license notice and copyright assignment. You must look in the individual directories for the COPYING file, and occasionally at the top of each file, where there is a specific license notice and copyright assignment.
Only Software Libre libraries are included. Used licenses are the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License, the BSD licenses, the BSD-like license, the GNU Free Documentation License.
Nausicaa's installation infrastructure supports only GNU systems. This means Unix-like systems in which the following common tools and packages are installed: GNU Bash, GNU Make, GNU coreutils, GNU Find, GNU tar, Gzip, Bzip2.
There are 4 sources of informations about the installation of a Nausicaa project: the individual, project specific, README files; this README file; the README.build file; the README.rules file.
To use the Nausicaa libraries you must install the package of the Nausicaa/Scheme project.
For your own safety, take this advice: never, ever, drive building and installation of packages from the source directory of a project; always create a subdirectory and move into it:
$ cd
then, usually, you should do:
$ ../configure $ make $ make test $ make install
If you have downloaded the distribution directly from the GitHub repository: there should be no "configure" script in the top directories of each project. You can create them by running "autoconf" in the top directory of each project, so the installation process becomes:
$ cd
GNU Autoconf can be downloaded from the GNU site (see resources).
Notice that:
The library source files (.sls) are installed in the directory selected by the "pkglibdir" Makefile variable; by default this variable is set to "$(libdir)/scheme", which means that without touching the configuration the files will end up in:
/usr/local/lib/scheme
be sure to update accordingly the libraries search path of the Scheme implementation you are using.
Currently, among the supported Scheme implementations, Mosh, Racket, Vicare and Ypsilon can optionally use precompiled Scheme libraries. See the README.rules file for details about precompilation.
By default only documentation in Info format is built and installed, documentation in HTML format is pruned; to change this pass the '--enable-doc-html' option to the "configure" scripts.
Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail--recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions.
The "Revised^6 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme" gives a defining description of the programming language Scheme. The report is the work of many people in the course of many years. Revision 6 was edited by Michael Sperber, R. Kent Dybvig, Matthew Flatt and Anton Van Straaten.
Several libraries depend upon the port to R6RS of the Scheme Requests For Implementation (SRFI). The original SRFI code is the work of many authors, reference of which you can find the at the top of the source code files; the port to R6RS is the work of Derick Eddington.
Mosh is an R6RS compliant implementation of the Scheme programming language. It is the creation of Taro Minowa (higepon), kokosabu, herumi and .mjt.
Petite Chez Scheme is an also R6RS compliant implementation of the Scheme programming language. It is produced by Cadence Research Systems.
Racket is distribution of languages and libraries with support for R6RS. It is the work of many people (see the website).
Vicare is an experimental fork of Ikarus. Ikarus is an almost R6RS compliant implementation of the Scheme programming language. It is the creation of Abdulaziz Ghuloum.
Ypsilon is an R6RS compliant implementation of the Scheme programming language. It is the creation of Yoshikatsu Fujita at LittleWing Company.
The Nausicaa distribution and installation infrastructure is the creation of Marco Maggi. If this work exists, it is because of the GNU Software tools he uses all the time.
For other credits notes look in the individual, project specific, README files.
Bug reports are appreciated. Register them using the issue tracker a the GitHub site.
The R6RS documents are available at:
<http://www.r6rs.org>the SRFI documents are available at:
<http://srfi.schemers.org/>Ypsilon Scheme can be downloaded from:
<http://code.google.com/p/ypsilon/>the LittleWing Company site is at:
http://www.littlewingpinball.com/contents/en/index.html
Ikarus Scheme can be downloaded from:
<http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~aghuloum/ikarus/>
<http://launchpad.net/ikarus>Mosh Scheme can be downloaded from:
<http://code.google.com/p/mosh-scheme/>Petite Chez Scheme can be downloaded from:
<http://www.scheme.com/>Racket can be downloaded from:
<http://racket-lang.org/>Vicare Scheme can be downloaded from:
<http://github.com/marcomaggi/vicare/downloads>
<http://github.com/marcomaggi/vicare/>the GNU Software tools can be downloaded from:
<http://www.gnu.org>The latest version of the Nausicaa packages can be downloaded from:
<http://github.com/marcomaggi/nausicaa/downloads>the home page of the Nausicaa project is at:
<http://marcomaggi.github.com/nausicaa.html>the latest revision of Nausicaa can be downloaded from:
<http://github.com/marcomaggi/nausicaa/tree/master>