Re: [Chicken-hackers] new CHICKEN 5 egg installation

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 01:43:28PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> >  Exciting news! What would it take to get deployment working? In the
> > past, I found it immensely useful to be able to distribute binary,
> > particularly with Windows and Mac OS X users who are not likely to
> > have a compiler installed, or a readily installable Chicken binary
> > distribution. 
> 
> Deployment is indeed useful, but the complexity of supporting all
> different OSes should perhaps be extracted into a separate tool
> that can be maintained at a quicker pace than the core system.

Also, note that building static egg library archives is now supported.
This should tackle most use cases for which deployment is used now.

Cheers,
Peter

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