From: John Cowan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] Distributed egg repo proposal Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:45:20 -0400
> Christian Kellermann scripsit: > >> - Automatically *mirror* the contributed archives on call-cc.org, >> maybe after the code has passed N salmonella rounds of master and >> experimental branches. > > What is an archive in this context? Is this a .tar.gz of a whole > remote repository in some random format (git, hg, bzr, remote svn)? > > This is the issue that bothers me. Using one DVCS would be great. > Using *every* DVCS at the whim of the egg maintainer is an invitation > to chaos. And the "magic script" will in the nature of things only > support a subset of all the CVSes out there. Actually, *every* version of *every* DVCS. Keeping a central store of all contributed repos is essential to have a consistent set of eggs. But it should perhaps only store the raw egg, not the repo (a tarball, say). cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
