Re: [Chicken-users] Re: getopt, getopt_long?

[Ivan Raikov]

  The default download directory is actually
{SETUP-BUILD-PREFIX}/downloads, where the build prefix is constructed
in a complicated way (but defaults to CHICKEN_TMPDIR or TMPDIR if
either of those environment variables is defined). If a .egg file or
.egg-dir directory is found there, then chicken-setup will use it. It
deletes the .egg and .egg-dir stuff after the egg is installed, which
is why upgrading usually works, unless you explicitly tell
chicken-setup to keep its files with -k. 

   I agree about the apt-like functionality, and even proposed the
design of a domain-specific language for such purposes but Felix
thinks it makes things too complicated.

   -Ivan


William Xu <address@hidden> writes:

> Odd...  It *should* have looked for the eggs under CHICKEN_TMPDIR.  
>
> But it does find the egg there, this'll prevent upgrading this egg then?
> I'm thinking that it'd be nice if we supply a set of debian apt-alike
> commands, such as: chicken-setup install / remove / upgrade /
> upgrade-all / reinstall, etc.