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

[felix winkelmann]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:26 AM, William Xu <address@hidden> wrote:
> "felix winkelmann" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I think chicken-setup should NOT duplicate functionality that
>> modern packaging tools provide. Dpkg and portage will always
>> do a better job at that, and it would be more worthwhile to push
>> for adoption of eggs into these packaging systems (which, IIRC,
>> Ivan already does with debianizing several eggs).
>
> I don't know if i understand correctly.  If that means making each egg a
> debian package, oh Jesus!! That'll spawn many debian eggs.  And
> considering there are that many linux distributions, it's a big burden..
> not to mention non-linux platforms.
>

I wasn't proposing that, just for complex cases and for applications
a distributions' package-management system can probably do it better.
For example, egg-installation should IMHO not try to figure out system
configuration things like searching libraries, include files, etc.


cheers,
felix