[plt-scheme] planet create needs compilation info

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Dave Herman <dherman at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> Is this a symptom of the recent problem Matthew pointed out on the
>> plt-dev mailing list (ie, planet is using some temporary island to
>> build the package locally)?
>
> Is it doing that? I didn't think it was building the package; I thought it
> just builds the Scribble docs.
>
> I looked through the thread and I don't *think* it's relevant, though I
> didn't understand everything. Note that in my example none of the module
> paths are relative, unlike the problem Carl was reporting.

I've not had a chance to investigate properly, but it makes sense that
building the docs doesn't work properly in a place that isn't known by
setup-plt and that is what seems to be happening when planet create
runs. In any case, I certainly hope that the answer is "no" to your
question of 'does the user have to make sure the .zo files are up to
date before running planet create?'.

Robby