Re: [Chicken-users] Need an explanation of egg version dependencies

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:10:39PM +0200, Christian Kellermann wrote:
> There are several other eggs that show the same behaviour (locale
> for example with '0.0.0').
> 
> So we either need a new mechanism for chicken-install to choose the
> latest version or fix those strings, as I see it now.
> 
> Which way is the right to turn to in this case?

In my opinion, having the same information in two different places
is just asking for trouble.  It would be best if there were only one
place where the version is defined.  Ideally, that would just be
the name of the tag directory, but that's coupling the setup program
too much with the version control system.

It also causes some trouble when installing the egg from a locally
downloaded copy which might be stored in some random directory of
which we don't know the name (or, "the current directory").  I think
chicken-install also downloads the egg into a directory with just the
bare name of the egg, with no version in it.

On the short term, just fixing those strings in the affected eggs is
probably the way to go, but this issue surely deserves some more
thought.

Cheers,
Peter
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