[Chicken-users] Eggs breakage due to removal of deprecated features

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi,

Some features marked as deprecated have been recently removed from the
*development* version of Chicken (see
http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git;a=commit;h=e1a5773f52691c48097ae4f698081fa50f9647f7)

It seems that a lot of eggs are still using things that were
deprecated and now removed.  Please take a look at
http://tests.call-cc.org/master/linux/x86/2012/10/05/salmonella-report/#installation-failed
to see if your egg has been affected.

Here's a summary of the features that have been removed and that
are responsible for most of the breakage:

- the make macro (available as an egg now --
  http://wiki.call-cc.org/egg/make)

- required-chicken-version and required-extension-version (from
  setup-api)

Notice that some critical eggs like lookup-table, message-digest,
easyffi, numbers and string-utils are currently using features
that have been removed.  Here's a rank of reverse dependencies:

http://tests.call-cc.org/master/linux/x86/2012/10/05/salmonella-report/ranks/rev-deps.html

So, egg authors, if your eggs use removed features, please update them
so that they don't use removed features and release new versions.

Best wishes,
Mario
-- 
http://parenteses.org/mario