Re: [Chicken-users] More on Packaging eggs

[Felix]

From: Taylor Venable <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] More on Packaging eggs
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:09:44 -0400

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Taylor Venable <address@hidden>wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Mario Domenech Goulart <
>> address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Those are bugs.  The version indicated by the .setup file doesn't match
>>> the one indicated by the tag directory.
>>>
>>
>> We had this problem with the packaging system I wrote for work; there we
>> have a scanning program that I run periodically to e.g. verify that things
>> like this match up (the Subversion location to the "recipe" version as we
>> say). It can even attempt to use Subversion to find out who is responsible
>> so they can be notified. I can reinvent that for the Egg repository if
>> people think that would be useful. :-)
>>
>> --
>> Taylor C. Venable
>> http://metasyntax.net/
>>
> 
> I went ahead and threw together a little program just to see if I could do
> it quickly; it turned out to be a fun exercise. It's on my Mercurial at
> http://bitbucket.org/taylor_venable/metasyntax/src/tip/Programs/egg-scan.scm
> 
> The results (filtered out to show mismatches that the program can detect -
> anything resulting from defining and then using a variable for the version
> would currently go unnoticed) are attached.

Hey, this is nice. But note that the version is not stored in the .meta
file (which, from my quick and careless skim through the code seems to
be what you are checking).


cheers,
felix