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

[John Cowan]

Mario Domenech Goulart scripsit:

> Anyway, maybe that's just a slightly different view of the "stable"
> word.  The fact is that we have a release tarball (supposedly "bug
> free"; given a version number, the code doesn't change and it doesn't
> need chicken to be compiled) and the svn branches code (development
> code, constantly changing and needs chicken to be bootstrapped).

Fair enough.  Since the tarballs don't come with eggs (there is only
one egg repository), in effect you have the best hope of using
eggs if you have the trunk code replaced.  To have what other
projects mean by stable releases, we'd have to branch the
egg repository with each release and make sure that chicken-setup
from a tarball invokes the correct set of eggs.  That way you
could load 2.731 and get the 2.731-usable eggs with it.

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