Re: Nightly Chicken packages, and Chicken packaging

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Daniel,

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:45:24 +0200 Daniel Ziltener <dziltener@lyrion.ch> wrote:

> I started building Chicken from the git repository as a "Nightly Build". 
> Currently, there are only RPM packages, DEB might follow later. The packages 
> are in my personal Chicken repository on openSUSE's OBS service and are 
> available for openSUSE, CentOS, Fedora, Mageia, RHEL, and SLE:
>
> https://software.opensuse.org//download.html?
> project=home%3Azilti%3Achicken&package=chicken-git
>
> The packages are compiled with the respective distribution's default C 
> compiler.
>
> (The "normal" Chicken 5.2.0 builds are available for a wide range of RPM and 
> DEB distributions here: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/
> zilti:/chicken/ )

Nice!  Thanks for sharing that.

> That aside, since the upcoming release will likely support the Tiny C 
> Compiler, is there interest in packages of Chicken compiled with TCC? If so,  
> any package name suggestions - probably chicken-tcc? Also, at that point I'd 
> add support for the Alternatives tool on RPM distributions so the different 
> versions could be installed in parallel.

Please note that TCC has to be patched to compile some eggs.  We've been
using 0.9.27 with VSTACK_SIZE (see tcc.h) set to 1024 instead of the
default 256.

> I also think about renaming the packages from "chicken" to "chicken5" to 
> reflect the major versions.

Sounds like a good idea.

All the best.
Mario
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