On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:59:10AM +0000, Imran Rafique wrote: > > Felix said: > > When mixing trees that way, how do you ensure the combination of them > > is consistent? > > The global tree. I can't write to this. > > + networking/ > + zmq/ > + recipe-zmq-1.0 > + recipe-zmq-2.0 > + patches/ > > I want to add some of my own changes to zmq, which haven't been > accepted upstream by the zmq egg authors yet - but I need them for my > locally deployed chicken scheme codebase. I want to use the benefits > of the egg infrastructure for deploying this modified zmq lib locally > (possibly across multiple machines)
I don't see why chicken-install needs to be bloated with all this stuff. Why not maintain a mercurial patch queue or use quilt. You could also just have a local clone of a repo with your own changes? Adding all this stuff to chicken-install needlessly complicates an intentionally simple tool. Cheers, Peter -- http://sjamaan.ath.cx -- "The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music." -- Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers