Subject: Re: disklabel(8) UI (was Re: IBM DFHS-31080 SCSI drive problem)
To: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 05/24/1999 23:22:12
I'm well aware of SIOD. At the moment, my two candidates for the
system are a stripped down ELK and SIOD. SIOD has the disadvantage of
being gross (read the code some time), ELK the disadvantage of being
larger unless you strip stuff out.

Perry

Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> writes:

> On Sun, 23 May 1999 10:58:37 +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> >
> >A quick search found siod 2.4 and 3.4.  2.4 doesn't seem to
> >support dynamically loaded functions which is one thing we'll
> >need for installation tools.
> 
> 2.9 doesn't support dynamic linking, but 3.4 appears to do so, at least
> to support extensions.  I don't know if it'll be sufficient for your
> needs.  I don't think it'd be too difficult to add to 2.*.  siod is
> still the smallest Scheme implementation I know of.
> 
> 
> 	-- Parag Patel