Re: [Chicken-users] Need to do an install, any changes in the pipe line I should wait for?

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 08:09:35AM -0800, Thomas Hintz wrote:
> I use CHICKEN a lot for my own webapps and the main problem I've found
> in using older versions of CHICKEN is in using eggs. You may want to
> be very careful to keep the source around for each version of the eggs
> you use in case an egg gets updated to be incompatible with the
> CHICKEN version you are on and you may not be able to get the old
> version after that. (Or maybe I missed a way to use chicken-install to
> get old versions and their old dependencies?)

You can request the specific version 1.0 of an egg named "foo" using
chicken-install foo:1.0

Unfortunately, it will retrieve the latest versions of any dependencies.
What we need now is a "bundler" workalike for CHICKEN.  Hint, hint... :)

Another simple way is to set up a proxying version of henrietta which
will fetch the requested egg's sources of the real henrietta and save
a copy for future reference.  That would require a little bit of hacking,
but shouldn't be too hard.

Cheers,
Peter
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