Just for the record, EPM now has an %arch itecture directive (armv6, ... i386, i486, ... powerpc, etc.).<br>To answer the question about whether this project is still alive, it seems that a version 5 is on its way, but with no release date.<br> <br>Laurent<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:23, Laurent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laurent.orseau@gmail.com">laurent.orseau@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:51, Eli Barzilay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@barzilay.org" target="_blank">eli@barzilay.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>On Aug 24, Laurent wrote:<br> ><br> > Probably dividing packages into core, textual, gui, docs, etc. would<br> > be nice I suppose.<br> <br> </div>Not really necessary: the textual distribution is the core one (it<br> isn't really a core at the moment, but it will be more core-ish); the<br> gui (core) distribution is much bigger so a separate installer makes<br> sense; and the docs are probably going to stay part of the collections<br> they belong to.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>To do things right, there should probably be an (or maybe some) <br>independent package that distributions created by raco depend on.<br>This way, the racket dependencies don't have to be embedded inside <br> the distributions, and simply adding a dependency declaration would be<br>sufficient.<br><br> </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> > > Even better, is if anyone gets this (or something similar) and<br> > > plays with a very simple spec file that I can try out -- and maybe<br> > > eventually switch our packaging process to use it.<br> ><br> > The documentation is quite complete and has some examples:<br> > <a href="http://www.epmhome.org/epm-book.html" target="_blank">http://www.epmhome.org/epm-book.html</a><br> <br> </div>Yeah, I saw that -- but it looks like getting a config file for racket<br> takes some work and experimentation, so if it waits for me then it<br> will take time.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div>It'd be indeed really surprising if it worked on first try.<br>One simple thing that can be tried though, is to create a simple <br>racket.list file with minimal information, and with:<br> %include racket-inc.list<br>where racket-inc.list is generated by mkepmlist on the Racket tree.<br>Then trying to make the tgz package with:<br>epm racket<br>would give a good first information about the difficulty to tweak the<br> config.<br>But I think this first step could work with little effort.<br> </blockquote></div><br>