Re: [Chicken-hackers] scheme-bytestructures, multi-implementation libraries

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 03:59:52PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > I think it would be good for chicken's spread and adoption in the scheme
> > world if its install system supported this case of multi-implementation
> > libraries, where the chicken-specific files can all be in a
> > subdirectory.  To that end, I propose that some declaration could be
> > added to .release-info that would tell henrietta-cache of the path in
> > which to find .meta and .setup, and in which to build the extension.
> 
> Hm... perhaps we could try both *.setup + *.meta and chicken/*.setup + 
> chicken/*.meta, but I guess this would require changes to THE SYSTEM
> (Peter?)

Doing that would require changes to chicken-install, not to the server-side
infrastructure.  Well, we _could_ do it server-side, somehow mapping some
files under chicken/ to the root dir, but I think the degree of mindfuck
that would involve would be too high.

Cheers,
Peter

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