Actually, upon further reflection, I think my previous post was a bit
confused. The reasons I gave were surely valid reasons for
*something*, but maybe not for the points I was making ;-) What I
really want to say is that:
* I believe that in some hypothetical future where people are
developing en
Matt Gushee scripsit:
> Also, in my experience with various Linux tribes, there is a general
> expectation that binary packages should depend only on other binary
> packages. Indeed, there is a potential security issue in that (at
> least in principle) official binary packages are tested and
> sec
Hi, Dan + all--
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Daniel Leslie wrote:
> I've never liked the duplication within the system package manager.
I agree that duplication is undesirable. However ...
> Ensuring
> Eggs are available and installed could be done as part of the tools' install
> script.
Th
I've never liked the duplication within the system package manager.
Ensuring Eggs are available and installed could be done as part of the
tools' install script.
-Dan
On 9 Jan 2015 14:40, "Alexej Magura" wrote:
> I'd forgotten about tools written in Chicken Scheme; it's a very valid
> point.
>
I'd forgotten about tools written in Chicken Scheme; it's a very valid
point.
On 01/09/2015 03:39 PM, Aaron Paden wrote:
I don't think that's quite right. Python also offers similar tools, but
every Linux distro I've seen also supplies Python packages in their
repositories. While pip is great f
I don't think that's quite right. Python also offers similar tools, but
every Linux distro I've seen also supplies Python packages in their
repositories. While pip is great for development, when it comes to
distribution, end-users on Linux still expect to be able to use their
package manager to ins
Hi Aaron,
On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 15:51:09 -0600 Aaron Paden wrote:
> 1) Does chicken have a way to check if there are new versions of
> libraries? Most of these libraries don't actually have a website or
> up-to-date version information, and the only way I've seen so far to
> tell the latest versio
Yeah, offering eggs via any other method, but chicken-install, is an
overly complicated and unnecessary solution to a non-existent problem,
and the solution tends to breed more problems of its own. Such as:
/"//how do I check if there's a more recent release for egg XYZ"/
I'd send a request t
> 1) Does chicken have a way to check if there are new versions of
> libraries? Most of these libraries don't actually have a website or
> up-to-date version information, and the only way I've seen so far to
> tell the latest version is to download it with chicken-install and check
> the version in
Most of them probably don't need to be packaged on the AUR.
I've always tried to stay away from AUR sponsored packages that were
available through a languages built-in package manager, since the AUR
packages may or may not be up to speed with the latest release available
via `chicken-install'
Most of the chicken-egg packages on aur.archlinux.org have been
orphaned. Most of these will not build because a recent pacman update
made implementing package() mandatory.
I've taken maintainership of a few packages, but I'm only trying Chicken
out. If any of you are Arch users, you may want to c
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