Re: [Chicken-hackers] Egg filename versioning

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Leonardo,

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:03:37 +0100 "Leonardo Valeri Manera" <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> We (the gentoo scheme people) would like to provide eggs via our
> packaging system.
> 
> There are various reasons for this, among which standardizing location
> - we have inbuilt safeguards against unsafe code compilation since the
> whole distro is source-based - separating major version egg location,
> providing upgrades without needing to check eggs-unlimited manually
> for changes...
> 
> However, in order to do this /properly/, we need the egg filenames to
> include version information. I won't go into the details, but i'll
> just say that without that, we'd have to use our existing mechanisms
> for live (cvs/snv/git/etc) packages, and these would be
> unsatisfactory, both from a packager and a user point of view, when it
> comes to eggs.
> 
> I realize this is a non-trivial change to your system, but do you
> think there's a chance this might happen, sometime in the future?

Can't the directory indicating the major chicken version be considered
part of the filename (actually the pathname).

Example:

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/3/syntax-case.egg
                                                   ^

Best wishes,
Mario