Re: [Chicken-users] Proposed procedure movement in Chicken 4

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 03:14:50PM -0700, Derrell Piper wrote:
> Someone asked me what I meant by my first comment.  I checked  
> Salmonella and it reports the following statistics for eggs (4 on top,  
> 3 on bottom):
> 
> Failed        99
> Succeed       334     (76%)
> Skipped       4
> Total         437
> 
> Failed        65
> Succeed       139 (67%)
> Skipped       4
> Total         208
> 
> ...which seems to indicate that less than half the eggs made the  
> transition from 3 to 4.  I think that that's probably not a good  
> thing. 

Porting eggs is boring work and it's up to each egg author to port
his own eggs so this is a bit of a slow process.  Sometimes others
can or will port eggs and ask the original author for approval, but
you'll understand that will only happen when a user really needs the
egg or already has some experience hacking it.

Back when 4.0.0 was soon-to-be-released we created a page listing
all the eggs and their status for porting:
http://chicken.wiki.br/hygienic-egg-port-a-mania
I've tried to keep this as up-to-date as possible, but maybe one or
two eggs are missing.

The idea was also to shake off any "deprecated" and "useless" eggs.
This would happen because eggs would be ported "by need", the idea
being that if someone needed an egg badly enough he would port it.

If one of your favorite eggs is not yet ported and you can't port
it yourself, please harass the author enough until he ports it :)

> The plethora of eggs is one of Chicken's major strengths.  I  
> just wanted to point that out if you're considering changes that might  
> break even more of them.

Agreed.

Cheers,
Peter
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