I agree. Planet 1 currently does this. Robby
On Friday, November 30, 2012, Eli Barzilay wrote: > About three weeks ago, Robby Findler wrote: > > I would be unhappy, however, if we end up with a system where you > > have to grovel around in low-level places to get simple uses of > > uninstalled packages working. That is, I want to be able to put in a > > blog post or in a talk or somewhere a little program that depends on > > uninstalled libraries and, if I'm careful about keeping those > > libraries that the little file works with, then that file should > > Just Work for casual users who download drracket paste it in, and > > hit Run. > > IIUC, there is an API interface for installing packages, so it's > possible to write some expression that installs a package if it is not > installed. The road from there to a require form that installs > something automatically if needed is probably not long, but I think > that one main thing that would make things better is if that results > in some visible output about the installation that is being done. > This avoids the problem of people who think that your random blogged > code is not doing anything. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >
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