Re: Res: [Chicken-users] New user; egg problems

[Ivan Raikov]

  I was going to say, it would take some effort to backport the
current egg repository to a given older version of Chicken. But I
appreciate the new addition to chicken-setup; and at least I can
create a Chicken 2.3 egg repository for the eggs I use. 

       -Ivan

"felix winkelmann" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 12/8/06, Peter Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:46:25PM -0800, Paulo Jabardo wrote:
>> > I think that a simple solution, that would not solve this
>> > particular problem but might help in the future is to have an egg
>> > repository for each version. So if someone is using an older
>> > version of chicken, the chicken-setup will use the appropriate
>> > repository. However, new eggs wouldn't be available.
>>
>> Noone is keeping you from taking a snapshot of the current egg
>>repository and providing support and fixes for old eggs. Please let
>>me know when I can use this repository.
>
> That won't even be necessary. The current development version of
> chicken-setup (darcs head, 2.509) can download from a SVN repository,
> together with a given revision number. So if you need a specific version
> of an egg, just do
>
> % chicken-setup -svn http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/svn/chicken-eggs
> -revision 2 ajax
>
> (of course this won'l help users of older chickens)
>
> Tagged eggs can be accessed with an URL that reflects the particular SVN tag
> (which not all eggs provide).
>
> I have also added a "(required-chicken-version VERSION)" to chicken-setup.
>
>
> cheers,
> felix