Re: [Chicken-hackers] install-extension: locations for docs, examples etc.

[Ivan Raikov]

  The (compile... and (install... forms are actual shell commands,
while the rest is metadata. I am not saying they must be in separate
files, but they are semantically different, so you can't just mash
them together like that. 

     -Ivan

"Shawn Rutledge" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:05 AM, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  If you allow me to say so: chicken-setup needs a rewrite.
>
> In that case I have a couple more ideas:
>
> Take the version number from the svn tag so I don't have to keep
> changing the setup file every time.
>
> Maybe the rest of the setup information can come from the meta file:
>
> ((egg "dbus.egg")
> (compile -s -O2 -d1
>         -ldbus-1 -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0/ -I/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include
>         dbus.scm)
> (install
>   (implementation "dbus.so" "dbus.o")
>   (exports "dbus.exports")
>   (documentation "extra-doc.html" "yet-more-doc.html" from-wiki)
>   (examples (list-files "examples/*")) )
> (license "MIT")
> (category os)
> (author "Shawn Rutledge")
> (synopsis "A binding for libdbus, the IPC mechanism"))
>
> Documentation from-wiki would imply installing the docs from the wiki
> in addition to the others in the list (in the right place), and
> (exports ...) would imply adding the compile flags to generate the
> exports.