[racket-dev] sticky: bad

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 8 08:33:55 EDT 2013

Thanks.

Robby


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

> What about a `make` target (maybe named `rebuild`) that remembers the
> previous PKGS setting? That seems a little less stateful, and would be
> perfect for the reasons that led me to ask for sticky mode.
>
> Sam
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > I'm happy to enable sticky mode only when the `make' line is something
> > like
> >
> >   make PKGS="..." STICKY_MODE=on
> >
> > Any objections?
> >
> > At Sat, 6 Jul 2013 09:43:46 -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
> >> I just got horribly confused because somehow I messed up passing a
> manual
> >> command-line to link-all.rkt and then nothing was working right. (It
> took
> >> me embarrassingly long to remember this sticky thing and then get
> unsticky.)
> >>
> >> So, can we change things so that "make" in the top-level doesn't use
> >> stickyness? Maybe add a new target "make stuck" or something that people
> >> who like this can use and so we avoid unexpected state?
> >>
> >> Robby
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