On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Felix <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > >> It would be good to be able to show available eggs when installing an egg, >> such >> that user can grep and find wanted eggs quickly without having to browse at >> http://wiki.call-cc.org/chicken-projects/egg- index-4.html. Simply a text >> dump >> of that html page would help much. > > That is possible, but would require a regularly updated "master" document > somewhere > on our server.
Henrietta already provides a list of eggs to chicken-install. I suppose that could be used, if we don't care about showing egg descriptions in such a list. > >> >> The other feature is being able to upgrade all installed eggs after, for >> instance, upgrading chicken. Then i don't have to reinstall each missing >> one by >> one, desperately. > > That has been requested repeatedly in the past, but I'm > sceptical. Bulk updates like that make it extremely easy to break > everything, unless you have a very rigid control over the stability of > the currently available extensions. The egg repository is actually > pretty good in that regard, but still, broken eggs and broken > dependencies slip in from time to time. We are quick to fix those, but > something like a bulk update could easily result in broken > installations. > > For example, I may have several applications that use one or the other > installed egg. Those eggs may be out of date, but I'm more interested > in having my system running, so when I install new extensions, > "chicken-install" will warn me when an egg requires higher versions > and I have the choice to think twice about whether I want to do that > or not. But only if you already know which versions you are supposed to be using. For deployed code, I guess you could take the list from a running server, manually. For code sitting in a repository, it doesn't work like that. Even when you do know the versions, it could get tedious. However, you've already provided the solution for that, your 'overrides' :) --Stephen Sent from my Emacs _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
