Re: [Chicken-users] Wish list

[Christian Kellermann]

* Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden> [130211 14:26]:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 22:36:41 +0400 Aleksej Saushev <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I have talked to a user, and he reminded me of my past experience of
> > using Chicken in production environment around four years ago. While
> > many things improved since then, there're still some I'd like to have.
> >
> > 1. Distribute eggs by HTTP(S) and/or FTP(S).
> >
> > Today I have "chicken-install -r", but it still is a specialized client.
> > I don't quite understand what I can do if I'm in mildly hostile network
> > where automatically configured proxy requires authentication mechanism
> > chicken-install doesn't support.
> >
> > 2. Distribute eggs as source tarballs.
> >
> > In addition to (1) it would be nice if eggs were distributed as tarballs
> > rather than individual files. In addition, such tarballs could be
> > accompanied by cryptographic hash sums (individually per egg or as big
> > list for the whole repository). These tarballs could even be signed, even.
> >
> > 3. Label eggs with their versions.
> >
> > It is unfortunate, that chicken-install still doesn't report egg version
> > in any way. Did I overlook it? It would be nice, if eggs would follow
> > common standard (eggname-x.y.z.tar.gz containing subdirectory 
> > eggname-x.y.z).
> >
> > 1-3 in conjunction would help paranoid people who want to track
> > versioning information for various reasons (security, stability in field).
> > (It would also help packagers and thus the community in whole due to
> > better visibility. I hope we do agree that there're people who prefer
> > using controlled installation rather than dumping random files into 
> > $PREFIX.)
> 
> Does http://code.call-cc.org/egg-tarballs look ok?  If I understand your
> wishes correctly, it should address 1-3.
> 
> I've generated it with https://github.com/mario-goulart/egg-tarballs .
> It took less than 3 minutes to create all the tarballs and less than 1
> second on the second run (just checks if tarballs exist and create them
> if they don't).  If it looks good enough, I can set it to run right
> after henrietta-cache is finished.

Whoa, awesome work Mario :)

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