[racket-dev] Caching rendered icons

I don't think we want to actually deploy _that_ DrRacket on a desktop
(one where the construction of the rendered images happens during
startup).

(But I don't see a good solution to this problem.)

Robby

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> We don't own some of them, and some have no maintainer.  The first is
> also an indication of a lost feature: being able to compile racket on
> a typical server and deploy on a desktop.
>
> On 2012-01-13, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>>> Yesterday, Neil Toronto wrote:
>>>> On 01/12/2012 12:22 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>>>> >> Is there a way to reliably get the "compiled" directory path during
>>>> >> expansion, and then load files from it at runtime? Can I ensure that
>>>> >> .PNG files are distributed automatically?
>>>> >
>>>> > Putting other stuff in compiled directories would probably complicate
>>>> > distributions (of both kinds), so the compile-to-bytestring is really
>>>> > better.  (One possible thing to keep in mind is to avoid compilation
>>>> > relying on having a display.)
>>>>
>>>> Just to double-check: ever since the big GUI rewrite, I can use
>>>> racket/draw without needing a display, right?
>>>
>>> And this broke the build on three machines -- two of them are servers,
>>> and one is a PPC machine that wasn't for anything except for the
>>> builds in a long time.
>>>
>>>  raco setup:  in images
>>>  ffi-lib: couldn't open "libcairo.so.2" (libcairo.so.2: cannot open
>>>  shared object file: No such file or directory)
>>>
>>> One possible way out: make it fall back to the dynamic case when
>>> there's no cairo present.  The zo files in the distribution are all
>>> from the main machine which does have cairo installed.  (That would
>>> further bogosify a `compiled-' prefix though.)
>>
>> I think we should just install cairo on these machines -- we shouldn't
>> be building on machines where we couldn't run Racket effectively.
>> --
>> sam th
>> samth at ccs.neu.edu
>>
>
>
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