Res: [Chicken-users] New user; egg problems

[Paulo Jabardo]

I think that a simple solution, that would not solve this particular problem 
but might help in the future is to have an egg repository for each version. So 
if someone is using an older version of chicken, the chicken-setup will use the 
appropriate repository. However, new eggs wouldn't be available.

Paulo

----- Mensagem original ----
De: Kon Lovett <address@hidden>
Para: chicken <address@hidden>
Enviadas: Quinta-feira, 7 de Dezembro de 2006 17:47:54
Assunto: Re: [Chicken-users] New user; egg problems

On Dec 7, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Zbigniew wrote:

> It seems to me that if Debian provides a Chicken 2.3 package for
> stability reasons, then Debian should also provide a 2.3 eggs package
> and keep it up to date.  Using chicken-setup is inherently "unstable"
> from the perspective of Debian stable, since the eggs are constantly
> updated and haven't gone through the Debian release cycle.  If you
> care enough to run Debian stable, you don't want to do this.  If you
> want to use chicken-setup, you should use the latest stable version of
> Chicken, which to me implies compiling or using Debian unstable (if
> available).
>
> I know that seems Draconian, but getting eggs to work on earlier
> versions of Chicken is not always easy.  Dependencies may change,
> features may not be available, etc.  I think it would be a massive
> pain to maintain such a thing, not to mention the infrastructure isn't
> there, although Felix can be surprising.
>

Thank you. I was just going to mention that. What do Debian users do  
when they want some new Java package that depends on this years JVM 
+Libs, not last years?

However, being able to explicitly state Chicken-Egg & Egg-Egg version  
requirements would still be useful.



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