Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?

[matt welland]

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 16:51 +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 11:33:54AM -0300, Stephen Eilert wrote:
> > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Felix
> > > That is possible, but would require a regularly updated "master" document 
> > > somewhere
> > > on our server.
> > 
> > Henrietta already provides a list of eggs to chicken-install.
> 
> AFAIK it doesn't do that.  chicken-install asks for an egg of a
> particular name, and henrietta either returns that or gives an error.
> You need to know the egg name beforehand.
> 
> But, like I said before, if the new distributed system will be used,
> this list is already -necessarily- available.  Nobody seems particularly
> interested in the distributed system though, so we might just scrap it.

On the contrary! I'm very interested in the distributed system. It is
physically written down on my todo list to find the documentation and
give it a go. Please don't drop it yet! 

> > I suppose that could be used, if we don't care about showing egg
> > descriptions in such a list.
> 
> Descriptions aren't in the distributed list either.  It could be fetched
> recursively of course.
> 
> Cheers,
> Peter