On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 02:00:46PM +0100, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: > Some time ago there was a strong interest in supporting mulitple local egg > repos (i.e. CHICKEN_REPOSITORY would specify a list of directories, each > of which may contain eggs). Would that allow dropping -prefix, and still > provide a way to split installations across multiple directories, and thus > solve > the requirements for packaging (-no-install-deps) and Salmonella?
I think that would be a nice way to support this, and would also make a Python virtualenv-like tool possible, so one can have local project-specific installations of different egg version combinations. > > * Do we need `doc-from-wiki'? > > I forgot. What was the original intention? I think it was to mark where > documentation > was to be found, for some tools or so, but I can't remember. I think that was needed back when we had both eggdoc and wiki, in the CHICKEN 3 or early CHICKEN 4 days. Currently nothing uses this anymore, so it can be deleted. > I think the reorganization of the libraries and modules by that notorious > newzealander has made bootstrapping somewhat difficult... I did the > following, IIRC: > > 1. build a bootstrap chicken from 4.12.0 > 2. used that chicken-boot to build C5 > 3. build a boot-chicken from the C5 chicken > 4. used that bootstrap chicken to build the branch Yo dawg, I heard you liked bootstrapping :) Cheers, Peter
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