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Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Autoloading optional dependencies |
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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:41:25 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.3i |
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:03:56AM +0100, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
> Anyway, my point is this: I feel a bit dirty not declaring the
> "optional" eggs *at all* in ugarit.meta. Therefore, I propose the use of
> an "optional" declaration therein, like so:
>
> (optional lzma z3 tiger-hash sha2 aes)
>
> ...purely to document which other eggs it *can* take advantage of if
> they are available. Whether chicken-install does something with this
> information one day is open to debate - my hunch would be to wait and
> see if any other eggs adopt this "design pattern", and if so, decide
> then what would be a good approach.
Well, go ahead and add it :)
(chicken-install already ignores unknown meta declarations)
Cheers,
Peter
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