Re: [Chicken-users] The eggs index needs release dates displayed

[John Gabriele]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018, at 4:36 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:09:28 -0500 John Gabriele <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > How about instead adding a link to its online repo (at github, gitlab,
> > bitbucket, ...)? Is there a way to add those links to the eggs index
> > page? That would be an excellent improvement. When I look at a
> > project's online repo, seeing recent commits, issues, available docs,
> > number of "stars"/"watchers", changelog, etc. gives me a good idea of
> > how the project is doing and if it'll work for me.
> 
> Documentation of eggs not in the CHICKEN svn repository usually have a
> link to to their repository.  Those that don't have a link to the source
> repository are either in svn or the documentation is simply missing the
> link.  In the latter case, feel free to fix the documentation in the
> wiki by adding a section "Repository" with a link to the source
> repository.

Ah, I didn't realize that the eggs index page as well as each individual egg's 
info pages are all wiki pages.

Also didn't realize that many eggs are in the chicken svn repo.

So, it sounds like the egg index page for a given release is somewhat 
autogenerated at some point early on, and then manually edited as changes 
happen?

> You can see the mapping between eggs and their repositories here:
> http://bugs.call-cc.org/browser/project/release/4/egg-locations (the
> links are actually to the .release-info file, but you can guess the
> repository from there).

Yes. Thanks for the link.

> Instructions to fetch eggs from svn can be found here:
> http://code.call-cc.org/#eggs-repository
> 
> Now that the canonical option to host eggs is not the CHICKEN svn
> anymore, I think eggs in svn should also contain a link to their source
> repositories and, ideally, instructions on how to check them out (I have
> a feeling that using svn is considered a lost art nowadays).

The eggs index could contain a column with a little graphic that indicates one 
of: chicken svn hosted, github, gitlab, bitbucket, etc.

Thanks,
-- John