[racket-dev] package install mode

(Sorry, I'm on my phone and can't something more precise...)

Actually, this suggests a good easy to do the guessing thing: see if the
'repo-time-stamp' exists (in the installation directory).  This will play
nicely with 3rd party packagers who are not supposed to include it.
On Jan 6, 2013 1:27 PM, "Matthew Flatt" <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> At Sun, 6 Jan 2013 11:42:52 -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > Yesterday, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > > I have been thinking about how developers who build their own Racket
> > > are more likely to want installation-wide packages instead of user-
> > > and version-specific packages. This is particularly true for those
> > > of us who work from the git respository.
> > [...]
> > I'm also saying that [...] the goal
> > of this is to get defaults that "just work" for everyone, assuming
> > that we can do whatever magic is needed to get user/version-specific
> > packages in the resulting distributions, and assuming that `--prefix'
> > is used only by 3rd-party packagers.  I think that such an assumption
> > is wrong, and there are lots of people who build from source using
> > `--prefix', and these people would have that extra tweak to keep in
> > mind.  (And and bear in mind that a non-`--prefix' build is so much
> > more convenient yet people still use it: it means that people only
> > prefer it out of habit and other project conventions, so these people
> > are unlikely to remember the extra tweak.)
> >
> > So assuming that I got everything right (which is highly
> > questionable), I think that it's best to have the same default for all
> > setups, and use an installation-wide installs by default only when
> > asked explicitly.
>
> Ok, I agree that it's better to be conservative and consistent on this
> point, instead of trying to guess correctly.
>
> For now, I've added:
>
>  * A `default-scope' installation-wide package configuration that
>    selects the default package scope for `raco pkg' commands (when
>    using the installation's `raco pkg'). Set it with
>
>      raco pkg config -i --set default-scope <scope>
>
>  * An `--enable-pkgscope=...' option to `configure', which sets the
>    installation's `default-scope' configuration on install.
>
>    This is just a slightly streamlined way to get a source-based build
>    set up right the first time. If you don't specify
>    `--enable-pkgscope' with `configure', then any existing
>    configuration for an installation is preserved by `make install'.
>
> In any case, I think having an installation-specific default for
> package scope turns out to work a lot better than my previous
> suggestion of an environment variable.
>
>
>
>
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