On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 17:16:11 +0100 Peter Bex <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 08:09:35AM -0800, Thomas Hintz wrote: >> I use CHICKEN a lot for my own webapps and the main problem I've found >> in using older versions of CHICKEN is in using eggs. You may want to >> be very careful to keep the source around for each version of the eggs >> you use in case an egg gets updated to be incompatible with the >> CHICKEN version you are on and you may not be able to get the old >> version after that. (Or maybe I missed a way to use chicken-install to >> get old versions and their old dependencies?) > > You can request the specific version 1.0 of an egg named "foo" using > chicken-install foo:1.0 > > Unfortunately, it will retrieve the latest versions of any dependencies. > What we need now is a "bundler" workalike for CHICKEN. Hint, hint... :) That would be very nice, indeed. > Another simple way is to set up a proxying version of henrietta which > will fetch the requested egg's sources of the real henrietta and save > a copy for future reference. That would require a little bit of hacking, > but shouldn't be too hard. There's also http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/egg-pack-sources (maybe I can make it handle the version of dependencies with some hackery). Best wishes. Mario -- http://parenteses.org/mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
