Re: [Chicken-users] [wish list] chicken-install: show available eggs, upgrade all installed eggs?

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 11:33:54AM -0300, Stephen Eilert wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Felix
> > That is possible, but would require a regularly updated "master" document 
> > somewhere
> > on our server.
> 
> Henrietta already provides a list of eggs to chicken-install.

AFAIK it doesn't do that.  chicken-install asks for an egg of a
particular name, and henrietta either returns that or gives an error.
You need to know the egg name beforehand.

But, like I said before, if the new distributed system will be used,
this list is already -necessarily- available.  Nobody seems particularly
interested in the distributed system though, so we might just scrap it.

> I suppose that could be used, if we don't care about showing egg
> descriptions in such a list.

Descriptions aren't in the distributed list either.  It could be fetched
recursively of course.

Cheers,
Peter
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