Re: [Chicken-hackers] manual and chicken4 infrastructure

[Marijn Schouten (hkBst)]

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Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> How much of the chicken-3 infrastructure shall remain, and
>> for how long? As I understand, Ivan has an interest in continuing
>> chicken-3 maintenance and support and could host all the
>> hairy egg-post-commit + svnwiki-translation stuff on his machine.
> 
> There are quite a few eggs that are not ported, right?  Tinyclos is an
> important one for me.  When all the eggs I use are ported, then I
> guess I can upgrade everywhere.  :-)
> 
> Ideally no eggs would be left behind, but maybe that's not realistic.
> Some other projects end up maintaining both new and old branches for
> years for that kind of reason.  (KDE 3, Qt 3, ReiserFS V3, perl 5,
> BlueZ 2 and 3, ...) And Linux distros will tend to lag behind for a
> long time, too.  E.g. I have to work on OpenEmbedded one of these
> days, and I imagine Gentoo won't get Chicken 4 for quite a while
> either.

I imagine chicken-4 will be in Gentoo in a week or so. (I'd try to add the
release candidate to our overlay today, but due to a deadline I may not have
time until friday.)

Marijn

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