Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in new numbers.egg dependencies

[felix winkelmann]

On 8/28/06, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think the solution to this problem is to put the dependency information
> into the .setup file as a new property, and have chicken-setup
> calculate the transitive value of the property when installing an egg.
> Thus numbers.setup would say (depends-on easyffi) and easyffi.setup would
> say (depends-on silex) and the order of eggs in the depends-on property
> wouldn't matter, as chicken-setup would be able to topologically sort
> the graph.

The problem is that we would have to look into each egg (tarball or dir)
in the current directory to figure out the dependencies. Or, if you run
chicken-setup inside an egg-dir, it would essentially have to search on
level higher. Hm... difficult.


cheers,
felix

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