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

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 12:52:36PM +0200, Felix wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not crazy at getting bleeding edge eggs.. However, I do like to upgrade
> > `chicken' itself whenever a newer release comes out.  Only realize that i 
> > have
> > to find out and reinstall all eggs again. (Because at least all the eggs 
> > have to
> > be recompiled using the new chicken?)
> 
> Not always, only if some incompatibility has been introduced, particularly in
> the C runtime system or header-files.
> 
> I have added an option called "-reinstall" to chicken-install (see 
> experimental
> branch). This will reinstall all installed eggs, using the same versions. Only
> minimally tested, though.

I don't think this will help much.  If there's an incompatibility,
generally the ABI version is increased too (the 5 in /usr/lib/chicken/5/),
so reinstall would reinstall all 0 eggs you have under the new directory :)

Cheers,
Peter
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