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

[Michele La Monaca]

>> 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.

That was exactly my main motivation. You can support only as many
platforms, but you can make the extra effort to be as
platform-independent as possible to have good chances to succeed on
'unsupported platforms'.

>> 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".

and of course Windows was my second target.

:-)

Regards,
mikele