Re: [Chicken-hackers] Should we make a 4.12 release?

[felix . winkelmann]

> > That can still be done, and seems to me independent of -prefix. by
> > using salmonella like any other egg.
>
> I'm afraid I don't follow you here.  Salmonella needs a way to install
> eggs using an empty local egg repository, otherwise the already
> installed eggs may prevent the detection of dependency problems.  In C4,
> salmonella uses chicken-install with the -prefix option to point to an
> empty egg repo.
>
> How can we install eggs using an empty egg repo in C5?  Is there another
> way to detect dependency problems in C5?

First you can walk and check the dependency graph from the information
available in the .egg files. For an empty egg-repo you could disable previously
existing eggs by moving or renaming (salmonella has no dependencies, AFAICT).
That is a somewhat crude method, admittedly. But you always have the option
to use a fresh chicken install, and let salmonella invoke the tools from that
installation.


felix