I've never liked the duplication within the system package manager. Ensuring Eggs are available and installed could be done as part of the tools' install script.
-Dan On 9 Jan 2015 14:40, "Alexej Magura" <agm2...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd forgotten about tools written in Chicken Scheme; it's a very valid > point. > > On 01/09/2015 03:39 PM, Aaron Paden wrote: > > I don't think that's quite right. Python also offers similar tools, but > every Linux distro I've seen also supplies Python packages in their > repositories. While pip is great for development, when it comes to > distribution, end-users on Linux still expect to be able to use their > package manager to install applications, which necessarily requires > using the package manager to handle dependencies. > > I don't know if there are any traditional Unix-style applications or > utilities written in Chicken Scheme being distributed to end-users > currently, but the reason why I'm even checking it out is because it > does seem better suited to this task than a lot of other Lisp/Scheme > implementations. > > On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 15:12 -0700, Alexej Magura wrote: > > Yeah, offering eggs via any other method, but chicken-install, is an > overly complicated and unnecessary solution to a non-existent problem, > and the solution tends to breed more problems of its own. Such as: > "how do I check if there's a more recent release for egg XYZ" > > I'd send a request to AUR General, IIRC that's the appropriate mailing > list, and ask them to delete the AUR packages in question. > > On 01/09/2015 03:05 PM, co...@ccil.org wrote: > > > IMO, system-specific package libraries should be used only for Chicken > itself, and eggs should be updated solely by chicken-install. > > > -- > Alexej Magura > > > > -- > Alexej Magura > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > Chicken-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users > >
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