Re: [Chicken-users] Eggs metafile needs another property - doesn't it?

[Jörg F . Wittenberger]

Argh, wait...

Am 05.01.2016 um 21:09 schrieb Jörg F. Wittenberger:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need to specify a certain - not yet available - version of chicken
> itself as the minimum requirement for an egg to work for real.

as I sent the message I re-read
http://wiki.call-cc.org/Metafile%20reference
once more and stumbled upon what I've been looking for:

(platform ID ...)

using `chicken-4.11` should do the trick, shouldn't it?

Sorry for the noise.

> (((Backgground: Hacking away on this RPi gpio egg I created a version
> which exacerbates an issue I fixed the other day - see ticket 1232.  To
> improve at the real-time behavior there is a real-time thread doing
> nothing but wait for signal delivery.  – Is there a better way to do
> this??? – Now signals are more or less sure to arrive _not_ at the
> chicken thread, which will mess up the memory management.)))
> 
> As this is not the only egg not working for older chicken versions I
> guess we should have a property like `min-chicken-version` to make sure
> users do not get trapped.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> /Jörg