Re: [Chicken-hackers] manual and chicken4 infrastructure

[felix winkelmann]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Shawn Rutledge
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Ideally no eggs would be left behind, but maybe that's not realistic.
> Some other projects end up maintaining both new and old branches for
> years for that kind of reason.  (KDE 3, Qt 3, ReiserFS V3, perl 5,
> BlueZ 2 and 3, ...) And Linux distros will tend to lag behind for a
> long time, too.  E.g. I have to work on OpenEmbedded one of these
> days, and I imagine Gentoo won't get Chicken 4 for quite a while
> either.

The eggs for chicken-3 will remain, but it doesn't make sense to port
all of the chicken-3 eggs to chicken-4. Some of them simply will
not work because they use old internal code (codewalk, for example).
And some eggs are probably obsolete.


cheers,
felix