I can confirm this behavior and I consider it a bug. I have submitted a bug (#11448) in your name so that you hear back when we get around to fixing it.
In the meantime, I propose you use the work arounds that you have figured out. Sorry for any inconvenience -- Matthias On Nov 18, 2010, at 4:38 AM, Benjamin Seppke wrote: > Hi, > > we use DrRacket for educational purpose at our University and have found out > some "strange" behavior of the module system. > > For one excercise, we provide a racket module containing (and providing) > symbols that have images (of flags) as values. The students should use these > images to visualize the results of their programs. > > When the module file is put in the same directory as the students' excercise > file, Racket gives an error message after (require "flag-module.rkt") telling > us: > > write: cannot marshal constant that is embedded in compiled code: > (object:image-snip% ...) > > Okay, so marshalling is the problem here... However, it works if we add the > file to the collects/XXX Folder and load it via (require xxx/flag-module) - > maybe because collect modules are not compiled again? > > It also works if I uncheck "fill compiled/-directories" in "Language->Select > lang->Details". Although this works, I would prefer a successful loading of > modules, which contain images, without disabling the compilation. As I'm not > too familiar with Racket's internals, I'm asking if there is a way to achieve > that. Or - maybe - if this behavior is by design, and Racket is supposed to > work like that? > > Btw, I am using Racket 5.0.1 @ Mac OS X 10.5, but this behavior seems to > occur independently of the OS. > > Best regards, > Benjamin Seppke > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
