[racket] are people using untyped/snooze?

On Aug 16, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:

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> I don't know about this particular error, but there is a long history of PLaneT packages giving install-time errors.  Sometimes (as Carl Eastlund pointed out to me recently), it's because they're requiring a specific, older version.  But there have been a few different causes.  And sometimes the errors have been in PLaneT packages that are popular for other PLaneT packages to depend upon.
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> I suspect a reason that these errors were allowed to persist so long is that they're usually only noticeable at time of the PLaneT package install.  If you re-run your program that "require"d the PLaneT package, after it failed (or simply gave non-fatal error messages) due to PLaneT install-time problems, you see no sign of trouble now that the PLaneT package is installed.
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> I think it's been mentioned before, but automated testing of PLaneT packages by the PLaneT server/repository would be nice.  For starters, just see whether they can be compiled and "require"d without error (in a sandbox).  Would be nice to test multiple Racket versions.  Later, as we get standardized entry point for running test suites, the repository could even detect regressions with new Racket versions and with combinations of different versions of PLaneT packages on which a package depends.  Regressions in a supposedly backward-compatible version, or even any test failure at all, could even trigger suspension of the version from new use until a human approves it.  This is something doable on the repository side, and something that simply won't get done if we're expecting individual package authors to do it for their packages.

+1.

Also, I think it would be very helpful to try to compute the dependencies of a given planet package, and also a relative measure of its compile time.

Is the limiting factor here developer time or CPU time?

John


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