[racket] Long compilation+launch times

You may want to set the PLTCOOLLECTS environment variable or use a
Planet development link.

Robby

On Wednesday, August 4, 2010, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:12, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
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> Oh, that explains it. When it is in a collection, then drracket's
> auto-compile feature disables itself, since collections are not
> generally assumed to be writeable (as they are, roughly speaking the
> "standard libraries" and could be in some shared place).
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> That makes sense, thank you!
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> You can work around this by explicitly calling mzc periodically from a
> shell (but you must be sure to call it if you change exported
> identifiers (or anytime you get a strange error)).
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> My collection is in ..../Scheme-svn/
> running mzc inside ..../Scheme-svn/common works perfectly, but
> inside ..../Scheme-svn/gui-tools it doesn't because in these files there are:
> (require common/something)
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> and mzc fails with the "collection not found" error.
> Do I need to change my requires to relative paths, or should I had the
> collection path to mzc (and then, how?) ?
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> Or even better: is there a way to add a collection permanently
> (such as in the preferences), so that I don't have to declare them each
> time I run racket, gracket, mzc, etc.
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