Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. =================================================================== RCS file: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/pkgsrc/lang/chicken/DESCR,v retrieving revision 1.1 retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -p -r1.1 -r1.2 --- pkgsrc/lang/chicken/DESCR 2002/08/20 14:53:18 1.1 +++ pkgsrc/lang/chicken/DESCR 2003/05/06 17:41:37 1.2 @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ CHICKEN is a Scheme-to-C compiler supporting most of the language features as defined in the Revised^5 Report on Scheme. CHICKEN generates quite portable C code, and files compiled by it (including -itself) should work without any changes on most platforms. +itself) should work without any changes on most platforms. The whole package is distributed under a BSD license and as such free -to use and modify as long as you adhere to its terms (see the manual). +to use and modify as long as you adhere to its terms (see the manual). Linkage to C modules and C-library functions is straightforward, so it's easy to access C from Scheme. Compiled code can be embedded into existing C programs without problems. The generated code supports full tail-recursion, first-class continuations, multiple values and -dynamic-wind. +dynamic-wind.