Most of the chicken-egg packages on aur.archlinux.org have been orphaned. Most of these will not build because a recent pacman update made implementing package() mandatory.
I've taken maintainership of a few packages, but I'm only trying Chicken out. If any of you are Arch users, you may want to consider taking maintainership of some of these packages if you use them. Note that the template used for most of those packages are old and quite hackish, and I'm only vaguely aware of how it even works. I've adopted a much simpler method from perlawk. For an example, see: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ch/chicken-iset/PKGBUILD With that out of the way, I do have a couple related questions: 1) Does chicken have a way to check if there are new versions of libraries? Most of these libraries don't actually have a website or up-to-date version information, and the only way I've seen so far to tell the latest version is to download it with chicken-install and check the version in the $name.setup file. 2) Is there a way to track dependencies for chicken packages? So far, the only way I've noticed is to install the package and check for errors. This is problematic for packages because I might have a dependency on my computer that another use does not. Some libraries document dependencies on their wiki page, but some don't. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
