Re: [Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

> And of course, people will find clever semi-legitimate uses for a > full search path, like for example NixOS. I just wanted to add that I ran into this when using CHICKEN on NixOS and would have really appreciated a full search path. As a user I find it easier to understand than separate

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:11:57 +0100 felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: >> > Mario, would this help with Salmonella? >> >> Not sure if I undertand the proposal. You mean chicken-install would >> install eggs in the directory pointed by CHICKEN_REPOSITORY? > > I would suggest to _lookup_ eggs

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

> > Mario, would this help with Salmonella? > > Not sure if I undertand the proposal. You mean chicken-install would > install eggs in the directory pointed by CHICKEN_REPOSITORY? I would suggest to _lookup_ eggs (during loading + linking) from any of the directories given in

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

Hello all, On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:42:36 +0100 felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 02:00:46PM +0100, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: >> >> > Some time ago there was a strong interest in supporting mulitple >> > local egg repos (i.e. CHICKEN_REPOSITORY would specify a

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 03:42:36PM +0100, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 02:00:46PM +0100, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: > > > Some time ago there was a strong interest in supporting mulitple local egg > > > repos (i.e. CHICKEN_REPOSITORY would specify a list

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 02:00:46PM +0100, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: > > Some time ago there was a strong interest in supporting mulitple local egg > > repos (i.e. CHICKEN_REPOSITORY would specify a list of directories, each > > of which may contain eggs). Would that allow dropping

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 01:43:28PM +0100, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: > > Exciting news! What would it take to get deployment working? In the > > past, I found it immensely useful to be able to distribute binary, > > particularly with Windows and Mac OS X users who are not likely to > >

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

> Exciting news! What would it take to get deployment working? In the > past, I found it immensely useful to be able to distribute binary, > particularly with Windows and Mac OS X users who are not likely to > have a compiler installed, or a readily installable Chicken binary > distribution.

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

Hi John, On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:47:11 -0500 John Cowan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart > wrote: > > > * "-test" implies that all tests are executed, including > dependencies; or should only those tests run that

Re: [Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart < ma...@parenteses.org> wrote: > * "-test" implies that all tests are executed, including dependencies; > >or should only those tests run that belong to the eggs explicitly > given > >on the command line? > > I personally like the

[Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

Hello! I have now a first prelininary version of the new egg installation tools for CHICKEN 5 working, and before we go on, I'd like people to review and reflect on the changes that have been made so far. I also need some advice regarding a number of issues... The branch is