Re: new web page for libraries

["John R. Hall" <reeves@hex.net>]

Well, I'm working on a system for writing Internet Relay Chat robots in Scheme,
and it's nearly usable (I was VERY pleased when I found that I could make a
standalone binary out of it with mzc). I'll pass that along when it's a bit
more polished. It uses a TCP port to connect to the server, and a very hairy
mess of code for parsing the IRC protocol. I'm presently building an
event-driven message system on top of the IRC modules. You'll be happy to know
it's rather dependent on MzScheme extensions (mainly the very nice and sane
way you handle TCP, as opposed to Guile's socket support :)

-Reeves

On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> We've created a comprehensive web page of libraries, extensions, and
> tools for use with PLT Scheme. The page will include:
> 
>  * contributed code,
>  * reminders of packages already included in the PLT Scheme
>    distribution, and
>  * notes on projects that we know to be in development.
> 
> The web address is
>    http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/develop/
> 
> You'll see that contributed code is severely underrepresented in the
> table at the moment, for the obvious reason that we haven't tried to
> coordinate contributions in the past. So send me code and I'll add it
> to the page!
> 
> You'll see, too, that I threw in a little libreadline.a binding for
> MzScheme, which I've been using for years. Isn't polished, but it
> generally works (at least under Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris).
> 
> Finally, Robby and I have been slowly developing a MrEd-based IMAP mail
> client called "SirMail". I've used it as my mail client for nearly a
> year, now (see the X-Mailer header in this message). While it may never
> be a refined application, SirMail might be useful to other people. Or
> it might turn into a refined application if other people decide work on
> it.
> 
> The PLT members have more code like readline and SirMail that we can
> release through the new web page. I'll bet you do, too.
> 
> Matthew
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