Summary

Specification of minimal required version of CHICKEN in egg files

Metadata

• Id: 12fc954519e1d21eb755dc5cb06e8c81fd8d7a93
• Trac id: 1822
• Type: defect
• Reporter: mario
• Owner:
• Cc:
• Status: closed
• Component: core tools
• Estimated difficulty:
• Resolution: worksforme
• Priority: major
• Milestone: 6.0.0
• Version: 5.3.0
• Changetime: 2024-01-11 18:18:28 UTC
• Created: 2023-06-04 00:30:35 UTC
• Keywords: chicken-install

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.

Changes and comments

[2023-11-11 13:29:12 UTC] felix changed status from new to closed

[2023-11-11 13:29:12 UTC] felix set resolution to worksforme

[2023-11-11 13:29:12 UTC] felix wrote:

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

[2024-01-11 18:18:28 UTC] mario wrote:

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