Re: [Chicken-users] Re: chicken-install commands

[Felix]

From: Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Re: chicken-install commands
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 08:41:15 -0400

> Indeed.  Not easy at all, as far as I can see.
> 
> I've made a very limited version of nest-tool for chicken 4.  I've
> placed it at http://parenteses.org/mario/misc/nest-tool.scm
> 
> Here's an example session:
> 
> $ nest-tool.scm [ <options> ] [ egg ]
> 
> <options> are:
> 
> --help               This message
> --list[=<pattern>]   List eggs.  If <pattern> (a regex) is provided,
> --show only 
>                      eggs whose name match <pattern>.
> --no-synopsis:       Don't show synopsis
> --no-author:         Don't show author
> --no-dependencies:   Don't show dependencies
> --no-test-dependencies: Don't show test dependencies
> --no-license:        Don't show license
> --no-category:       Don't show category
> 
> $ nest-tool.scm --list
> <listing of all eggs here>
> 
> $ nest-tool.scm --list="spiffy.*"
> spiffy
> spiffy-cookies
> spiffy-request-vars
> spiffy-uri-match
> 
> $ nest-tool.scm spiffy
> [spiffy] A small but powerful web server
>   - Category: web
>   - License: BSD
>   - Author: Felix Winkelmann
>   - Dependencies: openssl, (intarweb 0.3), uri-common, defstruct,
>   sendfile, matchable
>   - Test dependencies: test
> 
> 
> It's very rough and inefficient (pointless, in some sense). It needs to
> download all the egg files to get the meta file.
> 

Henrietta could provide a feature that simply returns all the .meta
files - that should be enough information to either enhance chicken-install
and/or an extension tool.


cheers,
felix