Presumably forward slashes in URL's would need to be changed to backslashes to store the library file in the lib directory with the corresponding path. (MzScheme has some platform-independent path manipulation procedures that could be used if they turn out to be convenient).
Also, is there a version of wget for Windows? What are the instructions for installing it that should be added to the lib documentation? Would the lib code need to invoke wget differently?
There may be some other things too, those are the ones that occur to me off the top of my head.
I only actually use cmd when on someone else computer and need to run a single command a single time. Otherwise, I use FAR manager (an orthodox file manager) all the time. It gives me command line (Ctrl+O for more) history (Ctrl+E, Ctrl+X), easy directory navigation, editing (syntax highlighting via colorer plugin) and everything I need. Did you try it?
I'm running the same and I don't get that error. Can you open other files ok? Have you tried running (open-input-file "svg.arc") from MzScheme? Also, have you double checked that the file is actually in the right place? (I only say that because that's the only way you should be getting this error, so it's worth looking again just in case.)
It can be intersting if you want to have access to all the Java libs (that's one of the ideas of Clojure or Scala for example) and / or if you want to be able to be embedded in a client JVM (e.g. to write Scheme applets or sandboxed code). The latter cannot be solved by a JNI / FFI solution.
Access to the vast corpus of java libraries was the cited reason.
One interesting point that was made was that when you access the external libraries, it causes the scheme code to start to become less scheme-like and more like a java program written in scheme.
Honestly, I never knew how to answer the question "Where are you from ?" when it's asked in the forum registration form.
I mean, do you want to know the place I was born? Or live now? Or have spent most time? Or liked the most?
Or are you asking where from did we come to this world? I wish I knew! On the other hand, if we get materialistic, everyone gets here from the same certain place...
It's a hard question...
Well, the good thing with multiple choice polls is that you can give many answers. If you are born in Russia, spent most of your life in Canada and now live in Bamako, I think it can be interesting for Russian, Canadian and African people.
Firefox cannot load any of the icons so all I see are broken icon images. When I wanted to hit "back" I accidentally voted it up. I was kinda hoping it would start a groundswell of enthusiasm for the comment and it would soar to the top ten.
I see that minivds.com have low prices (starting at $5,95 / month) for FreeBSD-based VDS. Also they offer ~1 GB of preinstalled software that doesn't count towards your quota.
The information is from their site, not my personal experience. Actually I was going to use it myself, but haven't yet. What do you think of it ?
