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Re: [Chicken-users] Next Chicken release (4.4.0)


From: felix winkelmann
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Next Chicken release (4.4.0)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:56:05 +0100

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> The deprecation of `pointer-offset' breaks at least the following eggs:
>
>  * sendfile (which means spiffy and a bunch of spiffy-* eggs can't be
>   installed)
>
>  * objc
>
> I suppose these eggs would need some dirty hack to detect the chicken
> version and use either `pointer-offset' or `pointer+'.
>
> Unless there is a clean way to make those eggs work for any chicken-4
> version, I propose keeping `pointer-offset' as an alias to `pointer+'
> until chicken-5 is out.  Otherwise, I guess will need an ugly hack like
> the one we made for `files' a short time ago.
>
> Is there a clean workaround for this?

That was a stupid error by me. I have resurrected pointer-offset (it still
stays deprecated, but it is available again). Thanks the pointing this out.


cheers,
felix




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