Re: [Chicken-users] Egg: redis bindings

[Andrei Barbu]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Moritz Heidkamp
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> I've put up docs on the wiki:
>> https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/redis
>
> You mention "Note that you will need to fetch the git submodules in this
> package." -- I wonder if the .tar.gz includes the checked out
> submodules, too? Otherwise it won't work with the eggs infrastructure
> I'm afraid. We'll know in a bit though :-)

It includes the submodules. The release-info file points to a tarball
on my website that's automatically generated from the github tags.

>> Could someone make this accessible via chicken-install? Thanks!
>
> Done!

Thanks!

>> I'd also appreciate if someone had a look at the
>> meta/release-info/setup files and let me know if I'm doing something
>> inappropriate.
>
> Looks fine AFAICS. You can remove the `egg', `files' and `doc-from-wiki'
> clauses from the meta file, though. They are not needed anymore.

I'll remove them. Thanks for having a look.

> FYI, I also made a Redis egg once which I never released because I
> didn't need it eventually and then I couldn't be bothered to finish it
> up and write documentation for it :-) I took a slightly different
> approach in providing a high-level API which exposes each Redis command
> as a Scheme function. You can find the code here
> https://gitorious.org/chicken-eggs/redis

Ah, this egg was born because I needed something really quickly once I
hit a performance bottleneck with redis-chicken, hence the basic API.



Andrei