Re: [Chicken-users] Eggs breakage due to removal of deprecated features

[Felix]

From: Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-users] Eggs breakage due to removal of deprecated features
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:07:49 -0400

> Hi,
> 
> Some features marked as deprecated have been recently removed from the
> *development* version of Chicken (see
> http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git;a=commit;h=e1a5773f52691c48097ae4f698081fa50f9647f7)
> 
> It seems that a lot of eggs are still using things that were
> deprecated and now removed.  Please take a look at
> http://tests.call-cc.org/master/linux/x86/2012/10/05/salmonella-report/#installation-failed
> to see if your egg has been affected.
> 
> Here's a summary of the features that have been removed and that
> are responsible for most of the breakage:
> 
> - the make macro (available as an egg now --
>   http://wiki.call-cc.org/egg/make)
> 
> - required-chicken-version and required-extension-version (from
>   setup-api)
> 
> Notice that some critical eggs like lookup-table, message-digest,
> easyffi, numbers and string-utils are currently using features
> that have been removed.  Here's a rank of reverse dependencies:
> 
> http://tests.call-cc.org/master/linux/x86/2012/10/05/salmonella-report/ranks/rev-deps.html
> 
> So, egg authors, if your eggs use removed features, please update them
> so that they don't use removed features and release new versions.
> 

Thanks, Mario. It was clear that this will break some things, but I
didn't expect so many uses of that stuff. That reverse-dependency
graph is wonderful, BTW.

I will now go and fix my eggs.


cheers,
felix