Re: [Chicken-hackers] Egg filename versioning

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On 07 Feb 2008 12:17:39 -0200 Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:03:37 +0100 "Leonardo Valeri Manera" <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> 
> > We (the gentoo scheme people) would like to provide eggs via our
> > packaging system.
> > 
> > There are various reasons for this, among which standardizing location
> > - we have inbuilt safeguards against unsafe code compilation since the
> > whole distro is source-based - separating major version egg location,
> > providing upgrades without needing to check eggs-unlimited manually
> > for changes...
> > 
> > However, in order to do this /properly/, we need the egg filenames to
> > include version information. I won't go into the details, but i'll
> > just say that without that, we'd have to use our existing mechanisms
> > for live (cvs/snv/git/etc) packages, and these would be
> > unsatisfactory, both from a packager and a user point of view, when it
> > comes to eggs.
> > 
> > I realize this is a non-trivial change to your system, but do you
> > think there's a chance this might happen, sometime in the future?
> 
> Can't the directory indicating the major chicken version be considered
> part of the filename (actually the pathname).
> 
> Example:
> 
> http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/3/syntax-case.egg
>                                                    ^

Oh, sorry.  That was completely stupid.  You need eggs versions not
chicken's.

Best wishes,
Mario