[Chicken-hackers] repository cleanup

2008-02-24 Thread Felix Winkelmann
Hi! The toplevel eggs have now been moved into the release/2 directory. The post-commit code has been updated and seems to be running. I've seen that there have been some commits during the time of the reorganization. These commits have not resulted in egg updating, as the automatic post commit

Re: [Chicken-hackers] sudo-install

2008-02-24 Thread Thomas Christian Chust
Hello, wouldn't it be a solution if chicken-setup would downgrade its priviliges to a regular user for everything but installation of files in case it was run as root? I would also suggest that chicken-setup should download, unpack and compile eggs in a fresh temporary directory instead of

[Chicken-hackers] procedure/etiquette for submitting changes?

2008-02-24 Thread Ashley Bone
What is the general process for submitting changes? I have write access to the subversion repository and I'd like to submit some minor changes to rules.make, Makefile.msvc, and a one-line change to library.scm, all to fix the MSVC build. Should I just commit the changes? I saw a previous post

Re: [Chicken-hackers] procedure/etiquette for submitting changes?

2008-02-24 Thread Ivan Raikov
Hello, If you want, post your patch to this mailing list before committing, and I can make sure it doesn't break the Unix builds. I don't have Windows or MSVC, so I cannot test the MSVC build, but at least I can make sure there are no accidental breakages of something else. -Ivan Ashley

[Chicken-hackers] trac.callcc.org

2008-02-24 Thread Ivan Raikov
Hi all, It seems that trac.callcc.org is down most of the time I try to access it. Either I get a 500 error, or the HTTP request times out after a very long time. Is this instability inherent in Trac, or is there something peculiar about this particular installation? In either case, we need to

[Chicken-hackers] egg-post-commit

2008-02-24 Thread felix winkelmann
Hi, everybody! For those that use egg-post-commit on their personal checkouts: the usage has slightly changed: the -cd option is implicit. Generally I recommend not to use egg-post-commit as it has many subtle dependencies and everything on galinha is set up correctly. A tasks file is loaded

Re: [Chicken-hackers] sudo-install

2008-02-24 Thread felix winkelmann
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Ivan Raikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, will do. I will also add some optional privilege de-escalation functionality for the unpack and compile phases, if it is easy to implement. Cool! I have to warn you, though: chicken-setup.scm is a real mess!