Hi--

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:36:41 +0400 Aleksej Saushev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Most (if not all) eggs are available via HTTP(S).  For eggs hosted on
> call-cc.org, you ca use
> https://code.call-cc.org/svn/chicken-eggs/release/4/
>
> The other hosts (github, bitbucket, gitorious etc) also provide HTTP(S)
> access (including tarballs).


Is there a straightforward way for a user to *choose* HTTPS when installing
an egg? I thought the -transport option might do that, but according to the
manual, that is not the case.


> > 3. Label eggs with their versions.
> >
> > It is unfortunate, that chicken-install still doesn't report egg version
> > in any way. Did I overlook it? It would be nice, if eggs would follow
> > common standard (eggname-x.y.z.tar.gz containing subdirectory
> eggname-x.y.z).
>
> You can install specific egg versions by specifying them like this:
> <egg>:<version>.  Example
>
>    $ chicken-install sendfile:1.7.23
>

That's a useful feature that I was unaware of. I think it would also be
useful if the -list option showed version information.


> > 4. Support installation of eggs into directory other than
> > $(chicken-install -repository).
> >
> > It would be nice to be able to install eggs into private area
> > (for testing purposes, for migration purposes, just as developer
> > convenience, whatever).
>
> As far as I understand what you mean, that's already supported.  See
> http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Extensions#changing-repository-location


But it seems to me that the issue here is not only where the eggs are
installed, but where [csi|csc] looks for them at [runtime|compile time]. As
I understand it the repository path is *one* location in the filesystem. It
might be nice to support multiple paths.

--
Matt Gushee
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