[Chicken-janitors] #1511: Support for `files' form in the "toplevel" of egg description files

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#1511: Support for `files' form in the "toplevel" of egg description files
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 Reporter:  mario                             |                 Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                       |                Status:  new
 Priority:  major                             |             Milestone:  5.0
Component:  build system                      |               Version:  5.0
 Keywords:  egg format, uri meta-file, files  |  Estimated difficulty:
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 {{{.meta}}} files support a {{{files}}} form with a list of files that
 should be cached by henrietta-cache (use case: some egg repositories
 contain stuff that are not related to eggs -- e.g., tarballs (SRFIs --
 why? no clue), PDF documentation, glue code for other implementations
 etc.).  {{{henrietta-cache}}} uses the {{{files}}} form to determine what
 to cache.

 As far as I can tell, the egg description file doesn't support a
 {{{files}}} form.  I think it would be nice to support this, so that we
 can just use {{{(uri meta-file ...file.egg)}}} in .release-info files to
 specify which files to cache.

 Without this, files not necessary for the installation of eggs will be
 cached and downloaded by chicken-install but not used.

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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1511>
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