Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Re: Alternative egg installation directories

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hello,

On Wed, 31 May 2017 11:29:42 +0200 address@hidden wrote:

>> Is CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX intended to be used together with
>> CHICKEN_INSTALL_REPOSITORY?  If I don't set CHICKEN_INSTALL_REPOSITORY,
>> extensions and .egg-info files end up in the canonical repository.  Not
>> sure if this is by design.
>
> Yes, this is the case. I thought it is better to have two separate variables
> with precise meanings instead of combining them in some way.
>
>> 
>> Should CHICKEN_INSTALL_REPOSITORY be implicitly set to
>> CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib/chicken/<binversion> when
>> CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX is set in the environment?  In this case,
>> couldn't we just get rid of CHICKEN_INSTALL_REPOSITORY and use
>> CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX only?
>
> I don't know. We can implement it that way, but I fear that this may
> lead to more special cases later. Basically you are right, but what
> about trying the current approach first, to get Salmonella up and
> running and decide later whether we streamline the override-mechanism?

Yeah, that's a good plan.

> I still consider CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX to be internal + experimental
> for now.

All the best.
Mario
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