[plt-scheme] Automatic recompilation of source files with new versions of PLT Scheme

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Tom Gordon
<thomas.gordon at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> I was excited by this new feature of PLT Scheme version 4.2.2:
>
>>  DrScheme now, by default, compiles all of the files that are
>>  loaded when it runs a program and saves the compiled files in the
>>  filesystem.  This should lead to faster load times (not faster
>>  runtimes) since it avoids re-compiling files whose dependencies
>>  have not changed.
>
> But when I tried to run one of my programs in DrScheme I get this error
> message:
>
>> ... search_sls.zo:1:0: read (compiled): code compiled for version 4.2.1,
>> not 4.2.2
>
> I've received similar messages in the past, whenever I've switched to a new
> version of PLT Scheme.  In the past I've fixed this manually, by deleting
> all the *.zo object files in the "compiled" folders that PLT Scheme creates.
>   I was hoping that the new version would do this automatically.   Is there
> some tool for updating the object files that I've overlooked?

This should happen automatically for the .zo files that DrScheme
itself manages. Just to double check: you got this message while
hitting "run" from inside DrScheme and the language was the module
language (and automatic compilation was not disabled)?

> On a related issue:  I'm not really happy with PLT Scheme storing its object
> files in folders it creates within my source tree, since the code is
> portable R6RS Scheme and designed to be used with any R6RS implementation.
>  Is there some option for having the object files stored in some place
> outside of the source tree?

At the moment, that's not possible, I'm sorry to say.

Robby