Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix bad call in chicken-install error situation

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 02:44:58PM -0400, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> Shouldn't `with-default-sources' give something like
> 
>       (lambda ()
>         (with-output-to-port (current-error-port)
>           (lambda ()
>             (print "Could not determine a source of extensions. "
>                    "Please, specify a location and a transport for a 
> source.")))
>         (exit 1))
> 
> as the third argument to proc?  Or maybe it could simply abort instead
> of calling proc.

I don't know.  This code is confusing.  Maybe Felix can chime in.

> Also, maybe `list-available-extensions' should test against `(and trans
> locn)' since the procedures wrapped by `list-extensions' would error out
> if given a location as #f.

That's what I expected, but it doesn't error out.  I don't understand why.

Cheers,
Peter
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