I don't think that's quite right. Python also offers similar tools, but
every Linux distro I've seen also supplies Python packages in their
repositories. While pip is great for development, when it comes to
distribution, end-users on Linux still expect to be able to use their
package manager to install applications, which necessarily requires
using the package manager to handle dependencies.
I don't know if there are any traditional Unix-style applications or
utilities written in Chicken Scheme being distributed to end-users
currently, but the reason why I'm even checking it out is because it
does seem better suited to this task than a lot of other Lisp/Scheme
implementations.
On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 15:12 -0700, Alexej Magura wrote:
Yeah, offering eggs via any other method, but chicken-install, is an
overly complicated and unnecessary solution to a non-existent problem,
and the solution tends to breed more problems of its own. Such as:
"how do I check if there's a more recent release for egg XYZ"
I'd send a request to AUR General, IIRC that's the appropriate mailing
list, and ask them to delete the AUR packages in question.
On 01/09/2015 03:05 PM, address@hidden wrote:
IMO, system-specific package libraries should be used only for Chicken
itself, and eggs should be updated solely by chicken-install.
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Alexej Magura