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


From: Mario Domenech Goulart
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH(5)] Teach Henrietta about major releases
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:15:15 +0000
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On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:29:06 +0200 Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:57:15PM +0000, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
>> We have a problem.  The removal of "tags" in the directory hierarchy
>> breaks setup-download.scm's locate-egg/local, which is used by
>> gather-egg-information.
>> 
>> gather-egg-information is used by the make-egg-index script (/egg-index
>> is currently broken) and salmonella, at least (there are probably more
>> users).
>
> I think this is essentially the same problem as we had with henrietta:
> external eggs are too tightly coupled with the setup-api.  If we ever
> hope to reimplement chicken-install, we really should cut all ties
> between the core system and the external infrastructure tooling.

I agree.

>> I'm afraid we'll have to step back on the removal of the "tags"
>> directory.
>
> I think this move was a good one, and the locating of egg stuff should
> be copied into salmonella.

chicken-doc-admin uses it too (besides make-egg-index).

> The gather-egg-information procedure isn't very big, so this shouldn't
> be much of a problem, I think.  locate-egg/local is a little hairy,
> but if you look at what it's doing, there's a lot of support for
> various features we're not using.  For example, if the destination is
> missing (which it is, in gather-egg-information, the (dest ..) part of
> the cond clause is never used.  The clean option isn't present either,
> so the whole (when clean ...) part can be cut out as well.
>
> If you want to see a stripped-down version of locate-egg/local, take
> a look at henrietta's "locate-egg" procedure.  I think that one can
> be copied verbatim into Salmonella.  It even has support for multiple
> major CHICKEN releases, which setup-download's version does not.
>
> Maybe we can even remove gather-egg-information from setup-download now!

I agree that all those things should be removed.  I think Felix wanted
to remove gather-egg-information once, but kept it because it was being
used by other code.

I really think those things should be removed, but removing them from
CHICKEN 4 would be ugly, IMO.

The support for multiple versions doesn't cause much trouble.  The
removal of "tags" is what does, and it doesn't actually fix anything.
But it breaks core code that relies on that directory layout.

I fully agree we should change that (I'm talking about the "tags"
directory removal).  I'm just not sure it should be done in CHICKEN 4.

What do others think?

Best wishes.
Mario
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