Re: Chicken-setup redesign (was: Re: [Chicken-users] Re: getopt, getopt_long?)

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 02:41:27PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> Of course, this would also require the possibility of loading a
> particular version of a library.  I propose this syntax:
> 
> (require-library foo (bar 1.2) (qux 1))
> 
> This requires the latest installed version of foo (whatever that is),
> and version 1.2 of bar.  From qux the latest installed minor version
> with major version 1 is required (so, if you have 1.1 and 1.2 installed,
> it will pick 1.2).  These semantics match those of the 'versions' egg,
> I think.

On second thought, the syntax above is needlessly complex.

(require-library foo bar-1.2 qux-1) is much more straightforward and
maps _directly_ to the code in the 'versions' egg, too.  It also reserves
the "structured library names" like (bar ..) for future enhancements.

Cheers,
Peter
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