Re: HTTP class moves to gnu.kawa.servlet when built from source

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Ethan Herdrick wrote:
> I'm trying to patch in the changes of revision 6041 to the file
> kawa.standard.Scheme to a build of Kawa 1.9.1.  This is because I want
> to be able to pass in the HTML node creating functions, like html:a,
> into higher-order functions, which isn't possible with the current
> pre-built binary (Kawa 1.9.1).

I would recommend takeing a snapshot of SVN and using that instead,

> When I compile it, using Ant, I get the following message:
>
> servlet-classes:
>      [kawa] (compiling
> C:\kawa-1.9.1-clean-source\kawa-1.9.1\gnu\kawa\servlet\HTTP.scm to
> gnu.kawa.slib.HTTP)
>
> Sure enough, when I try to use it, I get:
> "javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.RuntimeException: no such
> class: gnu.kawa.servlet.HTTP"  So I need to either make HTTP.scm be
> compiled under gnu.kawa.servlet package, or make (require 'http)
> understand where the HTTP class is now found.

You can tweak the table in kawa/standard/require.java.


> By the way, why does this happen?  Why does HTTP end up in this other package?

I don't know.  But the HTTP module did use to be in gnu.kawa.servlet.
However, it looks like that was moved a year before 1.9.1.
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