> Hi folks, > > Someone noted on IRC that the `destination' specification for egg files > is currently documented but not actually implemented. I also noticed > this when trying to install a man page into <PREFIX>/share a few weeks > ago, and prepared the attached patch, but I never got around to sending > it. So, here you go. > > Most of the machinery to support this specification was already there, > it just needed an entry in `egg-info-items' and a bit of validation. > > This patch only allows files to be installed under CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX, > which works for my use case and seems like a sensible behaviour, but > might not be right. I'm also not sure about the use of `default-prefix' > here, I have just followed the examples of the existing code despite the > "XXX wrong!" warnings because I don't know any better. (ISTM that value, > which is currently defined as C_INSTALL_PREFIX, should perhaps rather be > C_TARGET_PREFIX to match the other "default-foo" definitions? But that > might be a tangent.) >
Thanks, pushed. felix
