Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies

2010-09-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 09/11/10 12:41, Peter Bex wrote: Well, go ahead and add it :) (chicken-install already ignores unknown meta declarations) I am! I'm just suggesting it in case anybody else does the same thing, so they don't come up with a *different* tag ;-) ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym http://www.snell-pym.o

[Chicken-users] More on Packaging eggs

2010-09-12 Thread Jim Pryor
I've been making slow progress refreshing the Arch Linux package scripts for installing eggs. I've accumulated notes about metadata and installation bugs in various eggs, which I will pass on soon. I had written earlier about my puzzlement re the difference between CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX=/alt

[Chicken-users] Metadata bugs (was: More on Packaging eggs)

2010-09-12 Thread Jim Pryor
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:03:17AM -0400, Jim Pryor wrote: > I've been making slow progress refreshing the Arch Linux package scripts > for installing eggs. > > I've accumulated notes about metadata and installation bugs > in various eggs, which I will pass on soon. Here are some of the metadata

Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies

2010-09-12 Thread Felix
From: Alaric Snell-Pym Subject: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:03:56 +0100 > > Hi there folks > > I've noticed that the autoload egg goes partway towards solving > Ugarit's > "depends on EVERY hash, compression, and encryption egg" problem. > > For

Re: [Chicken-users] More on Packaging eggs

2010-09-12 Thread Felix
From: Jim Pryor Subject: [Chicken-users] More on Packaging eggs Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:03:17 -0400 > (Do install-{extension,program,script} turn to NOPs when > chicken-install is invoked with the -n option?) Exactly. cheers, felix ___ Chicken-use

Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies

2010-09-12 Thread Alaric Snell-Pym
On 09/12/10 15:49, Felix wrote: But that wouldn't work inside modules, because you would have to have access to the import library, right? If there's macros involved, yes - but then autoloading macros makes no sense as they're loaded at compile time anyway. When you set up an autoload, no comp

[Chicken-users] CHICKEN release 4.6.0

2010-09-12 Thread Ivan Raikov
Hi all, CHICKEN 4.6.0 has been released and is available at the following URL: http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.6.0/chicken-4.6.0.tar.gz The changes in this release are described in the NEWS file available here: http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.6.0/NEWS -Ivan __

Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies

2010-09-12 Thread Felix
From: Alaric Snell-Pym Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:11:45 +0100 > On 09/12/10 15:49, Felix wrote: > >> But that wouldn't work inside modules, because you would have to >> have access to the import library, right? > > If there's macros