Re: [Chicken-users] Maintaining my eggs in a separate repository

[Matthew Welland]

Perhaps a mechanism similar to apt/sources.list for chicken would be nice? 
I.e. the ability for chicken-setup to search for an egg in several 
repositories specified in a file (such as the sources.list debian file).  I 
have libraries I need to distribute at work across several sites and this 
would make it much easier for me.

Looking at the help for chicken-setup it might be possible to make a wrapper 
that implements this idea without changing chicken-setup. If no one 
expresses interest in extending chicken-setup to address this need I'll 
take a stab at the wrapper approach.

The other possibility would be to embrace the ScmPkg approach although their 
web site appears inoperable right now...

Matt
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On Monday 09 March 2009 02:12:56 pm Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote:
> For what it's worth, in the course of the next few days I will be
> copying the code of the eggs I have authored and their wiki pages to a
> separate repository, which I will start treating as the canonical
> development location.
>
> This includes the following eggs:
>
> content-type
> file-mirror
> format-modular
> html-plots
> html-stream
> iconv
> orders
> srfi-40
> stream-base64
> stream-cgi
> stream-ext
> stream-flash
> stream-flash-tree-map
> stream-htpasswd
> stream-httplog
> stream-ldif
> stream-parser
> stream-sections
> stream-wiki
> svn-post-commit-hooks
> svnwiki-archives
> svnwiki-atom
> svnwiki-chicken
> svnwiki-contributor
> svnwiki-discuss
> svnwiki-edit
> svnwiki-edit-question
> svnwiki-enscript
> svnwiki-extensions
> svnwiki-folksonomy
> svnwiki-gallery
> svnwiki-gettext
> svnwiki-glossary
> svnwiki-googlemap
> svnwiki-image
> svnwiki-inline-edit
> svnwiki-javascript
> svnwiki-links
> svnwiki-mail
> svnwiki-math
> svnwiki-metadata
> svnwiki-nowiki
> svnwiki-progress
> svnwiki-rating
> svnwiki-scheme
> svnwiki-tags
> svnwiki-translations
> svnwiki-upload
> svnwiki-weblog
>
> I worked hard (with help from Mario and Felix) to try to make the
> Chicken Eggs repository serve as the central development location for
> most authors of Chicken extensions.  Ironically, it doesn't really
> serve this purpose for me any longer.
>
> I feel the same about the Chicken wiki.  Some time ago I thought I
> would start using it as the canonical location for the documentation
> of my code and even the code itself (I'm starting to embed all my code
> inside wiki pages from which I automatically extract it, see
> http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/xc or
> http://chicken.wiki.br/eggref/3/stream-ext for examples).  I won't be
> maintaining separate wiki pages for the same egg (in different
> locations in eggref/); I feel it significantly undermines the point of
> the wiki.
>
> I will be creating a separate repository of Scheme code, where I will
> be maintaining all my code, probably with some scripting to
> semi-automatically dump it to the Chicken Eggs repository.  I will be
> treating the Chicken Eggs repository (both release/* and wiki/*)
> simply as a mechanism to make my code easy to deploy in Chicken, which
> is the direction in which I feel this repository is being taken by
> recent (and not-so recent) changes.
>
> I will, of course, continue to maintain Svnwiki and support Chicken on
> it.  I will, however, start reducing the dependencies that the code I
> author has on Chicken (for instance, by removing certain
> Chicken-specific optimizations).  These optimizations can be added
> directly to the versions in the Chicken Eggs repository if someone
> feels like maintaining them.
>
> Furthermore, since I will be maintaining my documentation and code in
> my own repository/wiki, chances are that I won't be updating the
> Chicken Svnwiki installation as often as before.  I will, however,
> continue to provide access to all my source code.  I will also welcome
> others to host their code in my repository, if they feel so inclined.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alejo.
> http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/
>
>
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