Re: [Chicken-users] Support for dynamically getting version from tags gone?

[Ivan Raikov]

Hi Alejo,

  I think I made this change back when I was trying to fix the version
sorting routine in egg-post-commit. My apologies for not consulting
with you, I thought that you wouldn't mind since it was a "minor
change" in the setup script that did not affect the actual
library. Back then, I needed to get things to work rather quickly, and
the post-commit script was ignoring versions of eggs > 1.9, old bugs
were showing up and so on. It was quite annoying and led to my use of
brute force on the egg repository. I am glad to see you back on the
mailing list, I hope you will continue to maintain the wiki-related
eggs. 

   -Ivan

Alejandro Forero Cuervo <address@hidden> writes:

> I've noticed that other people have made lots of releases for eggs
> that I created.  Looking at the setup files, I've noticed that they've
> changed the version specification from the previous
>
>   ,(if (file-exists? version) (with-input-from-file "version" read) "unknown")
>
> to hardcoding the version number.  One such example:
>
>   svn diff -r 8353:8354 release/3/stream-wiki/trunk/stream-wiki.setup 
>
> Has the previous functionality of having the eggs automatically get
> their version based on their location in tags/ been removed?  Or has
> this been just a bug introduced by people modifying the eggs that I
> created?