Hi Leonardo, On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:03:37 +0100 "Leonardo Valeri Manera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We (the gentoo scheme people) would like to provide eggs via our > packaging system. > > There are various reasons for this, among which standardizing location > - we have inbuilt safeguards against unsafe code compilation since the > whole distro is source-based - separating major version egg location, > providing upgrades without needing to check eggs-unlimited manually > for changes... > > However, in order to do this /properly/, we need the egg filenames to > include version information. I won't go into the details, but i'll > just say that without that, we'd have to use our existing mechanisms > for live (cvs/snv/git/etc) packages, and these would be > unsatisfactory, both from a packager and a user point of view, when it > comes to eggs. > > I realize this is a non-trivial change to your system, but do you > think there's a chance this might happen, sometime in the future? Can't the directory indicating the major chicken version be considered part of the filename (actually the pathname). Example: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/3/syntax-case.egg ^ Best wishes, Mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
