Re: [Chicken-hackers] Should we make a 4.12 release?

[felix . winkelmann]

> On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 21:35:46 +0100 address@hidden wrote:
>
> >> Salmonella relies on -prefix to install eggs into a fresh local egg
> >> repository.  That's how it is able to catch dependency problems, for
> >> example.
> >
> > Shouldn't you use a separately built chicken insallation for that,
> > with a pristine egg repository for each run?
>
> That would work, but it would make the use of salmonella very
> inconvenient, as salmonella would depend on a fresh chicken installation
> to work.  Not sure if I understand your proposal correctly, though.
>
> For example, we have two common scenarios where salmonella is used:
>
> * by egg authors, to test eggs:
>
>   $ cd egg-source-dir
>   $ salmonella
>
> * by our test farm, where we build the whole set of eggs for different
>   combinations of chicken branches, C compilers, etc.
>
> Would it be feasible to use salmonella and C5 in these cases?

I think it would. To truly test in a clean environment I would suggest to
use a fresh chicken installation for case 1 as well. Note that this can
be done by pure copying/hardlinking of files, assuming the user didn't
modify installed files. But I didn't know of case 1 and am not sure what
advantages it provides.


felix