Re: [Chicken-users] Creating custom distribution

[felix winkelmann]

On 6/18/06, Jim Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>  I'm currently using chicken in a development environment that has no
> connection to the internet, never will, and the deployment environments
> don't have access either, never will.  I'd like to create a custom chicken
> distribution that basically includes a whole nursery and that runs chicken
> setup on the eggs in the nursery.  I know that I can construct a Makefile,
> or better yet a scheme program, that will do this for me but it feels
> cleaner to have it done as part of the top level install.
>
>  Also, is there a way to get the current list of eggs from the main nursery
> without having to scrape the HTML page?

With "nursery" you probably mean the egg-repository, right? (normally
"nursery" has a slight different, not necessarily sensible, meaning
related to GC).

You can download

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/repository

which contains the eggs, their dependencies, the date of the last
release and the name of the file to download.


cheers,
felix