On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 08:42:04PM -0700, Duke Normandin wrote: > > You can see the binaries in /usr/local/bin. > > chicken5 csc5 and csi5. > > You can generalize begin using most FreeBSD packages. > > I discovered all of that already! But WHY change from csc and csi > to csc5 and csi5? So next next Chicken upgrade will be csc6 and > csi6? Why this complication? Thanks for your input!
Presumably they did this so you can install CHICKEN 4 and 5 alongside. This is also commonly done by package maintainers for Python 2 and 3, Perl 4 and 5, and Ruby as well I think. Given that this is Ports, maybe there's an option you can set during build to not do that? Cheers, Peter
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