[racket-dev] Submodules & dependencies

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 12 14:59:24 EDT 2012

I know that. But we could consider the pruning step as part of compilation. 


On Mar 12, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> He's saying that there is no easy way to, without expanding the code
> (and perhaps without going one step further beyond a fully expanded
> program, but nevermind that detail), split apart the submodules that
> come from a single module. You just cannot tell, without expanding
> everything, which of the imports end up being used where (at least I
> think that's the idea).
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Why does it not compile? Do you mean it doesn't compile to the same byte codes?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 12, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>> 
>>> Sorry Matthias, I don't think I understand your question.
>>> 
>>> At the bytecode level, it would be "easy", so we could change the
>>> distribution scripts to do that.
>>> 
>>> At the source level, it's not really possible because of macros that
>>> generate code in a submodule.
>>> 
>>> My personal taste is that it is bad to ship .rkt that doesn't compile,
>>> but I'd also like a future where we don't ship .rkt
>>> 
>>> Jay
>>> 
>>> On 3/12/12, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>>>>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>>>>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>>>>> 
>>>>> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>>> 
>>> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
>> 
>> 
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