Opened 11 months ago

Closed 5 months ago

Last modified 3 months ago

#1822 closed defect (worksforme)

Specification of minimal required version of CHICKEN in egg files

Reported by: Mario Domenech Goulart Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: 6.0.0
Component: core tools Version: 5.3.0
Keywords: chicken-install Cc:
Estimated difficulty:

Description

This is about making it possible for egg authors to specify the minimum version of CHICKEN required for their eggs in egg files.

Something like

(minimum-required-chicken-version "5.5.0")

When users try to install eggs, chicken-install should verify whether the version of CHICKEN is recent enough to install the requested eggs.

This gives us more flexibility for making not-so-radical-but-breaking core API changes within a major CHICKEN version, still providing good feedback to users.

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 5 months ago by felix winkelmann

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

This can already be done by using the (chicken VERSION) dependency. This is just not documented properly.

comment:2 Changed 3 months ago by Mario Domenech Goulart

I've added a note about that to the manual (http://bugs.call-cc.org/changeset/43108/project).

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