Actually, upon further reflection, I think my previous post was a bit
confused. The reasons I gave were surely valid reasons for
*something*, but maybe not for the points I was making ;-) What I
really want to say is that:
* I believe that in some hypothetical future where people are
developing
Matt Gushee scripsit:
Also, in my experience with various Linux tribes, there is a general
expectation that binary packages should depend only on other binary
packages. Indeed, there is a potential security issue in that (at
least in principle) official binary packages are tested and
Most of the chicken-egg packages on aur.archlinux.org have been
orphaned. Most of these will not build because a recent pacman update
made implementing package() mandatory.
I've taken maintainership of a few packages, but I'm only trying Chicken
out. If any of you are Arch users, you may want to
Most of them probably don't need to be packaged on the AUR.
I've always tried to stay away from AUR sponsored packages that were
available through a languages built-in package manager, since the AUR
packages may or may not be up to speed with the latest release available
via `chicken-install'
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
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
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
