Re: [PATCH 0/1] Add support for `destination' specification in egg files

[felix . winkelmann]

> Hi folks,
>
> Someone noted on IRC that the `destination' specification for egg files
> is currently documented but not actually implemented. I also noticed
> this when trying to install a man page into <PREFIX>/share a few weeks
> ago, and prepared the attached patch, but I never got around to sending
> it. So, here you go.
>
> Most of the machinery to support this specification was already there,
> it just needed an entry in `egg-info-items' and a bit of validation.
>
> This patch only allows files to be installed under CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX,
> which works for my use case and seems like a sensible behaviour, but
> might not be right. I'm also not sure about the use of `default-prefix'
> here, I have just followed the examples of the existing code despite the
> "XXX wrong!" warnings because I don't know any better. (ISTM that value,
> which is currently defined as C_INSTALL_PREFIX, should perhaps rather be
> C_TARGET_PREFIX to match the other "default-foo" definitions? But that
> might be a tangent.)
>

Thanks, pushed.


felix