PLaneT and automatic compilation bad interaction (was Re: [plt-dev] Re: problem with optimistic compilation)

Is there some lower-level module of mzscheme's that could be shared
(say, #%kernel or something) and then have scheme/base be
re-instantiated in the new namespace that planet creates?

Robby

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Matthew Flatt<mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:31:17 -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
>> At this point, it seemed to me that it would be hopeless to try to get
>> the original values of the scheme/base parameters (specifically
>> current-compile),
>
> I think we should work on making this possible. A program might set all
> sorts of parameters before (dynamically) requiring a Planet path. Those
> settings should apply while loading the package's modules after it's
> installed, but they shouldn't affect installation of the package.
> Installation should always act the same --- as if a completely new
> OS-level process was started to install the package.
>
> I don't immediately know how to make that work (without actually
> starting a process), but that seems like the right path.
>
>