[racket] Current advice on making a 'script'

From: Norman Gray (norman at astro.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 14 16:43:53 EST 2015

> On 2015 Jan 14, at 21:36, Norman Gray <norman at astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> I suspect that what was in my head was something like Java's .jar file: a zip file containing a bundle of compiled files in a single artefact, which needs a separate executable to run, but which is boneheadedly easy to manage.

Come to think of it, it looks like that's basically what raco exe's --orig-exe does, and:

> This flag is rarely useful, because the part of the executable that is copied is normally small, and raco distribute does not work with executables that are created with --orig-exe.

...since raco exe doesn't embed libraries.

Bah.  Ignore me...

Norman


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