Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH(5)] Teach Henrietta about major releases

[Felix Winkelmann]

> If nobody has objections, I'll push them.  I know our patch application
> policy would allow me to just push your patches, but since these patches
> introduce changes that are backward-incompatible and depend on changes
> on eggs (henrietta), I'd like to wait to see if people have objections,
> since there is at least one alternative that does not require CHICKEN or
> egg changes (i.e., having a separate CGI script for henrietta + another
> location in setup.defaults).
> 
> I'm for you proposal, since it seems to be the most easily "scalable" in
> the long run (doesn't require a new CGI script + setup.defaults change
> for each CHICKEN major version).
> 
> I'm also for removing svn support from the core, since it doesn't make
> much sense now that the distributed egg system is in use.  If we remove
> svn support, I'd suggest removing the -trunk option for
> chicken-install.  I can do that, if people agree on removing it.

+1 from me for all of this.


felix