[racket-dev] Submodules & dependencies

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 12 12:17:44 EDT 2012

On Mar 12, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Jay McCarthy wrote:

> The current demodularizer would do that. Presumably we could make a
> tool that operated on a single module's zo and removed such
> submodules. The main problem would be that the source is
> un-compilable.


Meaning? Removing docs and tests shouldn't leave the functional part in bad shape 


> 
> Jay
> 
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, dependencies abound if we include tests and doc in the same module. At the same time it is good practice to have things together.
>> 
>> Can't this problem be solved with module-flattening tools? From what I can tell, these test and doc modules could be dropped leaving the running residual, which could be bundled.
> 
> 
> 
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> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
> 
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