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Re: freeBSD chicken port
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Peter Bex |
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Re: freeBSD chicken port |
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Fri, 15 Jan 2021 07:43:27 +0100 |
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On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 08:42:04PM -0700, Duke Normandin wrote:
> > You can see the binaries in /usr/local/bin.
> > chicken5 csc5 and csi5.
> > You can generalize begin using most FreeBSD packages.
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> I discovered all of that already! But WHY change from csc and csi
> to csc5 and csi5? So next next Chicken upgrade will be csc6 and
> csi6? Why this complication? Thanks for your input!
Presumably they did this so you can install CHICKEN 4 and 5 alongside.
This is also commonly done by package maintainers for Python 2 and 3,
Perl 4 and 5, and Ruby as well I think.
Given that this is Ports, maybe there's an option you can set during
build to not do that?
Cheers,
Peter
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