On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:26 AM, William Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "felix winkelmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I think chicken-setup should NOT duplicate functionality that >> modern packaging tools provide. Dpkg and portage will always >> do a better job at that, and it would be more worthwhile to push >> for adoption of eggs into these packaging systems (which, IIRC, >> Ivan already does with debianizing several eggs). > > I don't know if i understand correctly. If that means making each egg a > debian package, oh Jesus!! That'll spawn many debian eggs. And > considering there are that many linux distributions, it's a big burden.. > not to mention non-linux platforms. >
I wasn't proposing that, just for complex cases and for applications a distributions' package-management system can probably do it better. For example, egg-installation should IMHO not try to figure out system configuration things like searching libraries, include files, etc. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
