Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Prevent running applications from crashing when reinstalling

[Christian Kellermann]

* felix winkelmann <address@hidden> [121001 19:57]:
> From: Christian Kellermann <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Prevent running applications from crashing 
> when reinstalling
> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 17:41:59 +0200
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > thanks to Jim for the suggestion, I have been changing chicken-install
> > to remove preexisting files before installing them. This enables me to
> > reinstall an egg and have the running application that uses that not
> > segfault as it did before. Tried with several eggs so far.
>
> Signed off and pushed. I took the freedom to replace the invocation
> of "run" with
>
>   (run (,*remove-command* ,(shellpath to))))   ; uses "shellpath"

Excellent, thank you.

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