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Re: [Chicken-users] egg upgrading


From: Brandon J. Van Every
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] egg upgrading
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:53:17 -0700
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Harri Haataja wrote:
On 24/07/06, Zbigniew <address@hidden> wrote:
Also note: when installing from disk, chicken-setup will not reorder
installation to satisfy dependencies.  Therefore, you should install,
for example, syntax-case and regex-case first, as they are required
for compilation of certain extensions.
...

Re-inventing/implementing package management again?

Of course there are systems without such, but one.. make it the..
worst problem with all these language implementation specific bloody
extension archive collection network planets is that they do that.
Badly. IMHO, of course.

I can only hope that any system that might be put in won't get in the
way of building real managed binaries easily.


You could do better than hope. Are you willing to adopt an extant package management system to Chicken, i.e. do the work yourself? It would have to cover all platforms.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every








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