Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: repository branching

2008-02-26 Thread Alejandro Forero Cuervo
Given that all the old tags are kept in the svn repository, wouldn't chicken-setup be much better of installing chicken eggs directly from it, in the case where the last release is not the desired one? Note that it should only do this in the case where the last release is not the desired one

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: repository branching

2008-02-26 Thread felix winkelmann
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Peter Bex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This means you need an egg file for every egg release. Chicken-setup will fetch the latest egg it can find *with compatibility for your chicken version*, as stated by the meta file. It would be an error if bar turns

Re: [Chicken-hackers] sudo-install

2008-02-26 Thread Ivan Raikov
I have added checks for TMPDIR and TEMPDIR. I do have TMP set in my environment, but it turned out this is something I have added, not part of the standard user environment. If anyone has suggestions about other environment variables that specify temporary directory, I can add those, too. If

Re: [Chicken-hackers] call for repository/chicken-setup organization plans

2008-02-26 Thread Matthew Welland
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 02:04:13 am felix winkelmann wrote: I'm looking for proposals about how to find the ultimate repository/packaging combination, or better: what could we do to keep a central, revision controlled repository of chicken extensions, manage chicken+extension

Re: [Chicken-hackers] call for repository/chicken-setup organization plans

2008-02-26 Thread felix winkelmann
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Welland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008 02:04:13 am felix winkelmann wrote: I'm looking for proposals about how to find the ultimate repository/packaging combination, or better: what could we do to keep a central, revision

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: repository branching

2008-02-26 Thread Kon Lovett
On Feb 26, 2008, at 5:26 AM, felix winkelmann wrote: Hi! Regarding the repository question: I'm getting bored. I sympathize. But the suggestion of specific version info in .meta is probably good. So would be a common version format - suggest #.#.# since it is very common used by

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: repository branching

2008-02-26 Thread felix winkelmann
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Ivan Raikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I am preparing to resume work on Debian packaging, I would prefer that there will be no radical changes to the egg SVN repository for the time being, because the reorganization into release branches already wasted

Re: [Chicken-hackers] call for repository/chicken-setup organization plans

2008-02-26 Thread Ozzi
I don't know much about CPAN, as I've never learned Perl, but I know a lot of people think it's really great. Since, from what I gather, the eggs repository is roughly based on CPAN anyway, why don't we copy CPAN further? CPAN doesn't use a revision control system. Every* module is commited

Re: [Chicken-hackers] TCP speedup

2008-02-26 Thread Kon Lovett
On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:30 AM, Jim Ursetto wrote: Hi core hackers, Please consider this TCP patch, which speeds up the output port a LOT; the larger the write, the bigger the speedup. snip I will apply this if no one has objections. Best Wishes, Kon