Re: [Chicken-hackers] multiple issues in embedded PCRE

[John Cowan]

Marijn Schouten (hkBst) scripsit:

> I don't fully understand. You're saying the current snapshot of the
> stable release is useless except for bootstrapping? Does this have
> anything to do with egg versioning or lack thereof?

"Stable" is not a word applicable to Chicken at present, maybe not ever.
The best available Chicken is HEAD, most of the time; when HEAD has a
regression, Felix fixes it almost immediately.  The egg infrastructure
rebuilds all eggs against HEAD.

However, you can't do a virgin build of HEAD, because HEAD doesn't
contain the pre-compiled C source of the Chicken compiler, whereas the
tarballs do.  Therefore, you need to build a tarball first, then build
HEAD thereafter.  Only if you get too far behind HEAD will you need to
grab another tarball.

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