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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] A native scheme install


From: Felix
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] A native scheme install
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:04:18 +0100 (CET)

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 07:55:10PM +0100, Michele La Monaca wrote:
>> On some systems, Solaris 11 for
>> example, you don't have one in the default installation and the
>> current default (ginstall) is rather unlikely. That's it.
> 
> None of us uses this system.  We can't find problems in or maintain an
> installation program that's used only on platforms we don't have
> access to.

That's why Michele is proposing an alternative, I think.

> 
> Why is it such a burden to require ginstall?  gmake is required as well,
> which is unavailable on BSD systems by default.  You don't hear people
> like me grumbling about it.

One reason that comes to mind is called "Windows".


cheers,
felix




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