[racket-dev] Planet 2 Beta Release

In DrR, it isn't looking at the log that tells you this, you get a
special bar appearing in the window. You don't have to do any extra
clicks or anything like that.

That said, I don't mind if, when someone runs some planet2 code in
racket, outside drracket, that it raises an error saying "you need to
pass the --slow-me-down-but-automatically-download-missing-packages
flag, or just run this program in drracket".

Robby

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> A few minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
>> I agree. Planet 1 currently does this.
>
> Only in drr, where you can see the log...  I've seen many people run
> some random code naively and complain that it does nothing besides
> spinning the cpu because some packages take a significant time to run.
>
>
>> On Friday, November 30, 2012, Eli Barzilay wrote:
>>
>>     About three weeks ago, Robby Findler wrote:
>>     > I would be unhappy, however, if we end up with a system where you
>>     > have to grovel around in low-level places to get simple uses of
>>     > uninstalled packages working. That is, I want to be able to put in a
>>     > blog post or in a talk or somewhere a little program that depends on
>>     > uninstalled libraries and, if I'm careful about keeping those
>>     > libraries that the little file works with, then that file should
>>     > Just Work for casual users who download drracket paste it in, and
>>     > hit Run.
>>
>>     IIUC, there is an API interface for installing packages, so it's
>>     possible to write some expression that installs a package if it is not
>>     installed.  The road from there to a require form that installs
>>     something automatically if needed is probably not long, but I think
>>     that one main thing that would make things better is if that results
>>     in some visible output about the installation that is being done.
>>     This avoids the problem of people who think that your random blogged
>>     code is not doing anything.
>>
>>     --
>>               ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
>>                         http://barzilay.org/                   Maze is Life!
>>
>
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>           ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
>                     http://barzilay.org/                   Maze is Life!