Hi Christian, On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:18:13 +0200 Christian Kellermann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > > * Manfred Lotz <[email protected]> [140615 19:16]: > > I fully agree. This would be important to have. If currently not > > possible perhaps chicken-install could be enhanced to be able to > > place executables somewhere else. > > I have been installing chicken for years now locally only. For this > I do have a subdirectory ~/chickens which contain the full chicken > tree of each version (4.8.0.5 / 4.9.0.1 / master / etc) installed > there with the PREFIX set to ~/chickens/whatever while building. > > To access a particular version I do have a symling in the chickens > directory "use-this" which points to the corresponding version. My > PATH includes ~/chickens/use-this/bin and I use chicken-select to > switch between versions. chicken-install just works fine with this > kind of setup. It is easy, no hassle to set up additional environment > variables and it works just fine. > > Maybe that's also a valid option for you? > I agree that if a mix of package installation and local eggs won't work then a local installation of chicken would be an option. -- Manfred _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
