[racket-dev] [racket] Performance. Higher-order function

We discussed the possibility git submodules last year, and I think the
consensus was that it wouldn't work well. We did attach the
native-library repo (for Mac OS X and Windows) as a submodule to the
main Racket repo, and that worked well enough, but I think it has
worked only because the native-library repo changes rarely.

Our build system can create a distribution from any set of packages,
and so we can easily switch over one of the snapshots to use that mode
and include the OC. The Utah snapshot machine fell off the network
(that's why we have more than snapshot site...), but I can try adding
OC when I can reset it next week.

Including OC in a build from a checkout of the main repo seems harder.
The main repo in its current shape was always intended to be an
intermediate step before we split it up into separate, package-specific
repos; that still seems like the right direction to me.

At Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:33:01 -0400, Leif Andersen wrote:
> > but my guess is that that will require some work internally to make
> not be a pain for people who want to build from git
> 
> Wouldn't this be the ideal case for git submodules?
> 
> 
> ~Leif Andersen
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > I think you'd have to add a dependency to the 'main-distribution' pkg,
> > but my guess is that that will require some work internally to make
> > not be a pain for people who want to build from git. If you have the
> > inclination, you could give it a try locally and let us know how it
> > goes?
> >
> > Robby
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Vincent St-Amour <stamourv at ccs.neu.edu>
> > wrote:
> > > Ok, let's try to do that. Is there currently a way to include packages
> > > from 3rd party repos to the main distribution?
> > >
> > > Vincent
> > >
> > >
> > > At Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:03:04 -0400,
> > > Greg Hendershott wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Being in the main repo is different from being in the distribution
> > (and thus automatically installed). I think that OC should be there when
> > you download the full bundle.
> > >>
> > >> Definitely.
> > >>
> > >> 1. It's very useful.
> > >> 2. Its existence says, Racket optimization is a thing.
> > >> 3. It's used with one of Racket's most appealing and unique facets,
> > DrRacket.
> > >> &c
> > > _________________________
> > >   Racket Developers list:
> > >   http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
> > _________________________
> >   Racket Developers list:
> >   http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
> >
> _________________________
>   Racket Developers list:
>   http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev