Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-install -n -test

[John J Foerch]

Felix <address@hidden> writes:
> From: John J Foerch <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Chicken-users] chicken-install -n -test
> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:11:20 -0400
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm writing an egg and I happened to try 'chicken-install -n -test' to
>> see if I could run my tests without installing the egg.  This does not
>> work in the version of chicken that I'm using (4.6.0 from Debian), so I
>> would like to make this a feature request.  When running chicken-install
>> from the directory an egg resides in, it would be nice to be able to run
>> tests without installing the egg.  This would save the developer having
>> to type a sudo password, for example.
>> 
>> Corollary to this, it would be nice, when installing the egg, if the
>> tests could run before install, and if a test fails, installation could
>> be aborted.
>
> This would require being able to handle multiple extension directories
> (or a repository-path with mulitiple items).  Christian suggested this
> a while ago, and I see that it would be useful, but it will take a bit
> of work to handle this everywhere. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll
> take a note, but can't say how long this takes.
>
>
> cheers,
> felix

Excellent, thanks!

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John Foerch