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

[felix winkelmann]

On Nov 23, 2007 6:19 AM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I lord... Even though I feel that this is the only really working solution,
the amount of storage, bandwidth and the added complexity for the
tools makes my head spin...

Is this a viable approach? What do others think? How could one keep
track of bugfixes merged from one branch to the other? Is svn flexible
enough for this? Any opinions?


cheers,
felix