Re: [Chicken-users] Automated builds

[Arto Bendiken]

On 7/2/07, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 6/28/07, Arto Bendiken <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >   3. Maybe we could add a platform specifier to the eggs' metafiles,
> > in order for this process to be able to summarily skip e.g.
> > OS-X-specific eggs which won't build on Linux anyway? (They could show
> > "N/A" in orange or something else than a red error.)
>
> BTW, the meta-file properties can be extended arbitrarily. Feel free
> to add whatever you need.

Ah, good to know - and it opens all sorts of possibilities.

Perhaps, then, we could use a form like (platforms ...) to indicate
that an egg will only build on some specific platforms. One would
probably like to refer to some existing build/package management
platform for a good standard set of symbolic platform names, e.g.:
linux, darwin (= Mac OS X), freebsd, win32, or whatever.

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