[racket] Goldilocks: install too big, install-plain too slow

Really?  What happened with the command I posted?  It certainly works
for me here.

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Tew <tewk at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 08:53 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Farina <daniel at heroku.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have tried the install-plain make target and it is indeed much
>>> smaller, but it compiles/installs very little -- no raco, and
>>> apparently very little byte-compiling, because the racket REPL takes
>>> an age to load -- so it's basically unworkable.
>>>
>>> Is there a reasonable in-between option?
>>
>> One way to get an in-between option would be to use `make
>> plain-install` and then manually setup the relevant collections.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this is a little more inconvenient than it could be
>> because `plain-install` doesn't install `raco` -- perhaps this can be
>> added, or a make target could be added that did this.
>>
>> But even without `raco`, you should be able to run `racket -l- setup
>> -D racket web-server` to just set up the `racket` and `web-server`
>> collections, as an example (`-D` skips the documentation, which you
>> probably don't need on Heroku).  Some simple experimentation should
>> determine the right set of collections.
>> --
>> sam th
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> I had to type `racket -l- setup -D -l racket web-server` to get this to work
> for me.
>
> Kevin



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