<div dir="ltr">On installation issues:<div><br><div style> 1) Yes on defaulting to an installation-wide install as default.</div><div style><br></div><div style> 2) A non-UI build installation, "server" build capability (in a backend/engine/runtime not web sense), Image manipulation libraries etc are installed but full DrDr and associated tooling is not. (e.g. fast build on a "cloud" server straight from git with minimal core collection/library support).</div>
<div style> - Building Racket from source on a AWS small 64-bit server fails. It shouldn't (last time I tried) and it is a niggling inconvenience that it is so.</div><div style><br></div><div style> 3) Many (even most) of the collections library are non-core and IMHO should be evicted out into separate github hosted projects with drop-dead simple installation via Planet2 on demand. I know this sounds harsh, but collects is over due for a healthy paring, if not a full blown gastric by-pass.</div>
</div><div style> - I think an independence of development/release cycles between Racket and a host of stuff in collections is healthier for Racket and those libraries as well.</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div>
<div style>Ray</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Matthew Flatt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mflatt@cs.utah.edu" target="_blank">mflatt@cs.utah.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have been thinking about how developers who build their own Racket<br>
are more likely to want installation-wide packages instead of user- and<br>
version-specific packages. This is particularly true for those of us<br>
who work from the git respository.<br>
<br>
Maybe the default for a build `configure'd without `--prefix' (or, more<br>
generally, for a non-Unix-style build) should be installation-wide<br>
package installs, while the default for our pre-built distributions<br>
should be user- and version-specific installs.<br>
<br>
The default mode would be determined by configuration information in<br>
the installation-specific package area, and something like `raco pkg<br>
config -i default-mode <mode>' could change an installation's default.<br>
<br>
Does this sound like a good idea?<br>
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