[Chicken-hackers] catching compiling exceptions in setup-api

2010-08-10 Thread Jim Ursetto
I want to compile a short test program as part of my egg.setup. It should normally compile without error, but if it does not, I want to catch this error and do something. However, (compile) calls (quit) on error, which just calls (reset). I don't pretend to understand why, but I would like to

Re: [Chicken-hackers] catching compiling exceptions in setup-api

2010-08-10 Thread Felix
From: Jim Ursetto zbignie...@gmail.com Subject: [Chicken-hackers] catching compiling exceptions in setup-api Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:16:30 -0500 I want to compile a short test program as part of my egg.setup. It should normally compile without error, but if it does not, I want to catch this

[Chicken-hackers] svnsync for egg mirrors

2010-08-10 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
Hello! I've been experimenting with using svnsync to mirror the eggs SVN repo. Why, I hear you ask? Well, the cronjob that rsyncs the repo to chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk every hour makes the underlying server run a high load average for a good few minutes whenever it runs, due to using a

Re: [Chicken-hackers] svnsync for egg mirrors

2010-08-10 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 08/10/10 10:05, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: Hello! I've been experimenting with using svnsync to mirror the eggs SVN repo. PS, for those who want to try it out and look for issues, it's at http://chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk/svn2/ (while the normal mirror is at

Re: [Chicken-hackers] catching compiling exceptions in setup-api

2010-08-10 Thread Jim Ursetto
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:15, Felix fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org wrote: You can override the ##sys#reset-handler (for example using `parameterize'), which is just a thunk and by default invokes `exit'. I thought you might say that.  Is it possible to document that this is the

Re: [Chicken-hackers] catching compiling exceptions in setup-api

2010-08-10 Thread Jim Ursetto
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 15:24, Felix fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org wrote: I thought you might say that.  Is it possible to document that this is the official way to catch compilation errors? It is not the official way, but documenting this might be a good idea. Is there an