[racket-dev] package-system update

At Sun, 14 Jul 2013 15:59:28 +0200, toganm at opensuse.org wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 14 Jul 2013 07:00:14 -0600, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> 
> said:
>     
>     Matthew> Longer term, I think that OS-level packages/ports should probably
>     Matthew> reflect a minimal Racket installation, and then further Racket
>     Matthew> packages would be installed via the Racket package system.
> 
> Well, I would argue the other way around, as the whole package system would
> have been prepared for the distribution in mind, for example I build the
> package with shared-libraries, and avoding any static library, in addition to
> not to use bundled software ie. libffi.
> 
> This makes my life as the maintainer of the package easier as any possible
> bug/security fix would be easier.

I agree that all the things you list should be part of any OS-specific
packaging of Racket. I think all of those details are part of the core
build, so they would be consistent with a "Minimal Racket" package.

> Having said that the idea sounds more like the Emacs elpa system, and
> the user has the option to either download the distro provided
> packages or elpa versions. So in a effect racket goes the similar
> way.

Yes, that sounds right.