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

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, 
upgrade all installed eggs?
Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 13:15:18 +0200

> 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 :)

With incompatibility I mean small ones. Normally the ABI doesn't change.
The case you describe here is for big incompatibilities. Hey, it's a start, ok?


cheers,
felix