From: Peter Bex <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs? Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 13:15:18 +0200
> On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 12:52:36PM +0200, Felix wrote: >> > >> > I'm not crazy at getting bleeding edge eggs.. However, I do like to upgrade >> > `chicken' itself whenever a newer release comes out. Only realize that i >> > have >> > to find out and reinstall all eggs again. (Because at least all the eggs >> > have to >> > be recompiled using the new chicken?) >> >> Not always, only if some incompatibility has been introduced, particularly in >> the C runtime system or header-files. >> >> I have added an option called "-reinstall" to chicken-install (see >> experimental >> branch). This will reinstall all installed eggs, using the same versions. >> Only >> minimally tested, though. > > I don't think this will help much. If there's an incompatibility, > generally the ABI version is increased too (the 5 in /usr/lib/chicken/5/), > so reinstall would reinstall all 0 eggs you have under the new directory :) With incompatibility I mean small ones. Normally the ABI doesn't change. The case you describe here is for big incompatibilities. Hey, it's a start, ok? cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
