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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Allow `files' in the toplevel of egg descr


From: Mario Domenech Goulart
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Allow `files' in the toplevel of egg description files
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 10:40:37 +0200

Hi Evan,

On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 23:10:28 +1200 Evan Hanson <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 2018-09-01 16:26, Peter Bex wrote:
>> Note that there's also still the "files-list" option, which works with
>> both CHICKEN 4 and CHICKEN 5.  Personally I don't care much what we do
>> with this, but I'd prefer if a decision can be made soonish so we can
>> make a new RC as soon as possible.
>
> I may be missing something, but if there's already a way to accomplish
> this with "files-list", why don't we just use that?

That's an option, but it's kinda "global" in the sense that different
releases would share the same set of distribution files, unless we
implement support in henrietta-cache `files' per release. But then
.release-info files would get messy.

Also, according to http://wiki.call-cc.org/releasing-your-egg#files-list

  "It's not recommended you use this manually, as this format is subject
   to change and only really intended to be used as a communication
   system between pseudo-meta-egg-info and henrietta-cache."

> Or, we could add support for a (files ...) option in release-info files.
> Either way, I think the release-info file (or related) is a better place
> for this info than the egg file -- ISTM the egg file is about how things
> should be built and installed, while the release file is about how to
> get it.

I see your point, but egg files already contain stuff unreleated to
building/installing (e.g., author, synopsis, category).  Those things
were "inherited" from .meta files, and `files' was there.

All the best.
Mario
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