Re: [Chicken-users] Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: repository branching

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:38:25AM -0800, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote:
> So what about the idea of adding a (supported-releases 2.3 3.0.0) tag
> to the meta file, where particular versions of an egg that needs to do
> so specify which is the range of Chicken releases it supports?

Actually, this is a much better idea as it also provides better granularity
than the current system.  I have a practical problem *right now* with my
soon-to-be-released wmiirc egg.  It _requires_ chicken 3.0.1 (because of
a change in the way printf works on ports), but I can't currently express
this in the meta file/repos tree, afaik.  So it's located in the
release/3 but it won't actually work with the 3.0.0 release.

Cheers,
Peter
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