[racket] install-pkg

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That worked, but there is one annoying thing: it recompiled *all* the
>> dependencies, including the whole Racket...
>> Is there a way to avoid this with this function?
>
> This is a bad interaction between drracket's automatic compilation
> setup and the planet tools. In general, these planet functions expect
> to be called in a fairly clean environment and, when they are called
> via the planet command-line tool or when they are called by a
> `(require (planet ...))', they do get that clean environment, but when
> they are called directly here, they don't.
>
> I'm not really sure if this is fixable, but I have not looked
> carefully at it yet. (I will at least try to document the restriction
> if I cannot lift it.)
>
> The simplest thing, for now, is to just make sure you call these from,
> say, a racket command-line script.

I've adjusted planet a little bit so that now this works like you'd expect.

But please let me know if you see other problems with planet now
compiling too much or too little in other situations....

Thanks,
Robby