Felix <fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org> writes: > From: John J Foerch <jjfoe...@earthlink.net> > 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! -- John Foerch _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users