Most of the chicken-egg packages on aur.archlinux.org have been
orphaned. Most of these will not build because a recent pacman update
made implementing package() mandatory.
I've taken maintainership of a few packages, but I'm only trying Chicken
out. If any of you are Arch users, you may want to consider taking
maintainership of some of these packages if you use them.
Note that the template used for most of those packages are old and quite
hackish, and I'm only vaguely aware of how it even works. I've adopted a
much simpler method from perlawk. For an example, see:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ch/chicken-iset/PKGBUILD
With that out of the way, I do have a couple related questions:
1) Does chicken have a way to check if there are new versions of
libraries? Most of these libraries don't actually have a website or
up-to-date version information, and the only way I've seen so far to
tell the latest version is to download it with chicken-install and check
the version in the $name.setup file.
2) Is there a way to track dependencies for chicken packages? So far,
the only way I've noticed is to install the package and check for
errors. This is problematic for packages because I might have a
dependency on my computer that another use does not. Some libraries
document dependencies on their wiki page, but some don't.
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