[racket-dev] [racket] Long compilation+launch times

I've just pushed a change to drracket so that it now will compile
files in the collection paths, but not in the main collection path
where the distribution is (as that is the one where thigns should be
compiled already and also the one where you might not have write
access). It also still avoids compiling in the planet cache (but still
compiles in devel links).

Do let me know if you (or anyone!) run into any problems wrt compilation.

Thanks
Robby

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:12, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
> wrote:
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>> Oh, that explains it. When it is in a collection, then drracket's
>> auto-compile feature disables itself, since collections are not
>> generally assumed to be writeable (as they are, roughly speaking the
>> "standard libraries" and could be in some shared place).
>
> That makes sense, thank you!
>
>> You can work around this by explicitly calling mzc periodically from a
>> shell (but you must be sure to call it if you change exported
>> identifiers (or anytime you get a strange error)).
>
> My collection is in ..../Scheme-svn/
> running mzc inside ..../Scheme-svn/common works perfectly, but
> inside ..../Scheme-svn/gui-tools it doesn't because in these files there
> are:
> (require common/something)
>
> and mzc fails with the "collection not found" error.
> Do I need to change my requires to relative paths, or should I had the
> collection path to mzc (and then, how?) ?
>
> Or even better: is there a way to add a collection permanently
> (such as in the preferences), so that I don't have to declare them each
> time I run racket, gracket, mzc, etc.
>
>