[racket-dev] DrRacket PF1 Search Bug?

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Mon Nov 24 04:05:48 EST 2014

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:16:32 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>>
>> Oh, *that*'s the other solution?  That sounds pretty bad not only
>> because it complicates file installation which is already very
>> complex, but also because it's a significant weight.  (For example,
>> the current size I see is about 180M, multiply that for a department
>> with a thousand users and you get unhappy admins.)
>
> Just the documentation "index" (main page, search page, etc.) would
> get generated in the user's space. It's on the order of 1 MB.

Ah, that's much better.  But like I said, there's a point in doing this
abstraction anyway since it's needed for the linux `xdg-open' thing.  I
made a PR for that, it includes wrapping the mac thing, but that can be
dropped.

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